After we were so rudely interrupted...
MGI watch: Africans in Guangzhou. A couple of hundred African residents of Guangzhou storm a police station after a street trader mysteriously falls out of a very high window during an immigration sweep. There are about 100,000 Africans living in Guangzhou. Background here, in an article whose title demonstrates that China has successfully avoided the scourge of political correctness.
Rebecca MacKinnon has a detailed roundup of Chinese media strategy and public responses to the Xinjiang riots.
Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Barack Obama are all shacking up together in a tacky housing development outside Xi’an. No, really.
The twilight of expat exceptionalism
Notes from a conservative culture. Meet the Shanghai chavs. Now they’re fucking in the streets! And while we’re cruising chinaSmack, here’s a photo from a Chinese sex education booklet for primary schools. The first little chap is saying “we are testicles!” and the second is saying “hello!”
Back in the nineties, the EU China representative – whoever he was – used to be unofficially known as “the ambassador for Nokia”. It worked.
And lastly, China is great, glorious and correct in every particular. How about a job?
Of all the places, I wouldn't choose Xi'an.
Posted by: Neil | July 17, 2009 at 11:38 AM