Ok, this one technically isn’t Chinese-related since the piano isn’t a Chinese instrument and there are no lyrics to this song, but I don’t care because it’s a great piano piece that happens to be in a Chinese movie, and I’m rather in love with the piano as an instrument. In fact, if it were [...]
The Portable Media Player, which can do pretty much anything
Check out this Portable Media Player (or PMP – which just so happens to be a very similar name to Sony’s PSP, a handheld gaming system with a similar design). It can apparently do basically anything entertainment-wise, even read novels! I wonder what [...]
The epitome of a strong will to live, Mr. Peng Shulin
From the I’m a loser for complaining that I have to walk across the room to turn the lights on when some people don’t even have legs desk comes this story from China. Mr. Peng Shulin was cut in half by a “lorry” (that’s [...]
Look at all that natural goodness!
The West is a pill-popping, man-made-medicine-obsessed culture. We’ve got pills to treat everything from headaches to upset stomach to erectile dysfunction, and it seems like most of the Western world likes it that way. Often when I hear traditional Chinese medicine mentioned, it gets kind of brushed aside [...]
A face not even a mother could love…
Okay, so that’s not really what’s going on, but the story that prompted this post is lame. I found it on China Daily’s website in the “Odd News” section, and it was taken from the newspaper mentioned in the post title. Here’s the story [...]
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