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Aug 29

minipost-(Letter) Yang Peiyi and Lin Miaoke inside the Bird’s Nest

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Here’s a photo of the two girls inside the Bird’s Nest, which makes Times UK’s “banned” reporting less reliable:


Aug 29

minipost-An Imperfect Perfection – Follow up

Written by: Allen | Filed under:-mini-posts, culture, music, News, politics | Tags:, , , ,
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A few weeks ago, accusations and charges of fakery in the Opening Ceremony flew in the Western media like hotcakes when it was discovered that two Chinese girls had participated in performance of the “Hymn to the Motherland” in the Opening Ceremony.  We had a discussion here a few weeks ago.

Well – a few days ago, it was found out that the Australians also faked – not just one signer – but the entire orchestra!  I thought this would make for an entertaining read.

We don’t need to get into the politics again…  but I just wanted to follow up in case some of you missed the story…

Aug 29

minipost-(Letter) One of the things we love about living in China: our neighbours

Written by: Joel | Filed under:-mini-posts, culture | Tags:, , ,
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This is a happy China story that also happens to have some fun cultural elements in it.

When we moved into this neighbourhood a year and a half ago, we’d just begun language school and could hardly communicate at all (now we’re fluent in Chinglish). We picked this neighbourhood because it has a great outdoor community atmosphere and it seemed to be average (economically) for Tianjin: not the poorest hutong (some of which recently got bulldozed) but also not a newer development. It’s mostly danwei apartments. Continue reading »