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Another exciting new advance in Chinese culture via Yahoo! News:
Chinese pole dance their way to fitness

Treadmills are run-of-the-mill — Luo Lan wants the Chinese masses to pole dance instead.
As manager of Beijing’s first pole dancing school, Luo says she is trying to make exercise fun — and not morally corrupt anyone in a country where […]

Sometime last year, before my Chinese friend had begun to fully realize the differences between America and China, we were having a conversation about the Nanjing Massacre. At some point, my friend casually remarked, “Actually, there is a very good film about the Massacre, but I don’t think you will be able to get it […]

I feel compelled to share something that has made my time in China and my time spent studying Chinese markedly less frustrating. It’s called PlecoDict, and it’s a Chinese/English dictionary app for PDAs (Palm OS and Pocket PC). A friend of mine recommended it to me before I departed for China and though it was […]

Via Reuters:
Soldiers totally fail to understand the concept of the hat…
I still can’t believe Reuters has their story straight on this one, but if they do, this doesn’t reflect well on the Glorious People’s Liberation Army.
UPDATE: Okay, now I realize that the photo caption is the part that’s supposed to be taken seriously: “Recruits stand […]

I’ve heard it said that one knows he or she is becoming fluent in a language when such a person begins to dream in that language. I’m not sure how much truth there is to this because I am far from fluent in Chinese, but I have blurted out Mandarin on two separate occasions in […]