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Now: China's gold medal team. Their talent is not to be doubted. Their ages...perhaps:   Then: The 1956 US national squad: Things sure have changed. And not just the fashions.  

First go to the New York Times website and read David Brooks' column about collectivism and the opening ceremony:The world can be divided in many ways — rich and poor, democratic and authoritarian — but one of the most striking is the divide between the societies with an individualist mentality and the ones with a collectivist mentality. ...

Update: See Shanghaiist's update on this situation. Less serious than it first appeared, although not benign.  A couple of years ago a good friend of Imagethief's was accosted on Gongti Beilu by a drunk Chinese man who was looking to pick a fight with a Japanese person. He must have been drinking the really hard stuff because my friend is a ...

Responding to recent reports that the Chinese government is seeking external counsel, they write:After facing major protests in London and Paris as the Olympic torch made stops on its journey to Beijing, the Chinese government is said to be looking for a public relations firm to patch up China’s image before the 2008 Games in August. In the spirit ...

Imagethief just dragged his weary self off of the eleven hour flight from Beijing to San Francisco, where he is spending a couple of hours before connecting on to San Diego. Having been following the what's been following around the Olympic Torch Relay for the past few days, I was curious to see if there were any signs of the impending arrival of ...

I am ringing in 2008 by being officially too lazy to write anything original. But here are a few interesting stories from the past few days that are worth a read: And I thought Aussies were relaxedControversy in Australia, which has announced the implementation of a previously announced measure to censor pornography on the Internet at a ...