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Yesterday at 2:27 PM, the Chinese people marked the Sichuan earthquake by remaining silent for 3 minutes, while cars, ships and trains blew their horns. This clip, shot by Ada Shen, shows the scene on Beijing’s Dongzhimen Nanxiaojie.
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Jiang Ming of Chengdu city promised his wife, He Ling, that he would not go on the internet anymore, and would instead spend more time at home to take care of their newborn son.
But after a short time he started to sneak into nearby internet cafes again to have video chats with girls.
“I was on the internet, and suddenly felt a numbness in my right hand. The arrow on the screen stopped moving,” says Jiang Ming.
“Then I found that my right hand was on the mouse pad, and blood was shooting out.”
In court, the husband pleaded with the judge to release his wife, since he was to blame for breaking his promise.
The court has adjourned and will announce its verdict on another date, reports Chongqing Evening News.
[via guykawasaki's Twitter]
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Best headline ever:
Sexually Suspect Panda Gives Birth to Twins
Short version: Chinese vets thought the panda was a male (due to obvious penis and “male behavior”) and sent it off to mate with a female. No wild panda fucking, no baby pandas. The scientists decided, since pandas are very endangered, to try artificial insemination and when they went a-harvesting semen, discovered that, oops, “male” panda doesn’t have a penis. Hmm, maybe panda is really a lady panda, but she looks like she has a penis. Maybe it was a “little crocus” like Callie’s in Middlesex. Panda penises are, after all, only about 3 cm long.
Oops, guess what? Newly-discovered panda girl’s plumbing is out of place. Doctors operate to put ovaries where “normal” lady pandas have them.
Scientists then try putting previously-thought-male-or-hermaphroditic panda with a “normal” male and boom! Two little panda babies. No word on their plumbing.
Seriously, though, “sexually suspect?”
Thanks, CNN!
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By Q Boyer
BEIJING — To further its ongoing effort to combat sexually explicit websites, the Chinese government last week arrested a blogger for posting sexually explicit stories to his website, the Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported.
The blogger, identified only by his surname Li, posted the stories to a blog called “Hazy Night.†According to a spokesman from the Beijing Public Security Bureau quoted by Xinhua, the blog received close to 100,000 visits between August 2006 and April of this year, when police began to receive complaints about the blog’s content.
Li was arrested last Tuesday by police from Beijing’s university district, and charged with distributing Internet pornography, according to Xinhua. Individuals convicted of selling obscene content in China face jail terms of up to three years, but Xinhua reports that the law may not apply to Li, as the stories were freely available on his site, and not being “sold.†(more. . .)
[via Fleshbot]
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese tourism authorities are seeking investment to build a novel concept attraction — the world’s first “women’s town,” where men get punished for disobedience, an official said Thursday.
The 2.3-square-km Longshuihu village in the Shuangqiao district of Chongqing municipality, also known as “women’s town,” was based on the local traditional concept of “women rule and men obey,” a tourism official told Reuters.
Read more here.
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Radio and photo essays about footbinding survivors who live in Liuyicun village, Yunnan Province, China:
Painful Memories for China’s Footbinding Survivors (NPR):
“Suffering for beauty is a concept familiar to most women, who have dyed, plucked or shaved their hair, squeezed their feet into uncomfortable high heels or even surgically enhanced parts of their anatomy. Millions of Chinese women went even further — binding their feet to turn them into the prized “three-inch golden lotuses.”"
Feet Binding (Yahoo)
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When Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue hit the newsstands in China for the first time, with sexy singer Beyoncé on the cover, the competition was fierce.
Readers here had already seen the February issue of For Him Magazine, which features a Chinese singer named A Duo posing like a dominatrix, clutching her breasts, wrapping her naked body in celluloid and bending, sweat-drenched, over a submissive man.
China’s racy FHM also offers tips on “how to do it in five minutes” (because a “sex break is the same as a coffee break”) and features stories with titles like “The Dangerous Sex Journey of QiQi.”
The images and text would hardly be shocking to Western readers. And the photographs are tame compared with what appears in magazines in Japan and other parts of Asia.
But in China, where pornography is outlawed by the ruling Communist party, the images are not only highly provocative but perhaps the latest sign that sex and sexuality are infiltrating the mainstream media.
And this powerful burst of sexual energy seems both a symbol of how rapidly China’s transformation is unfolding and, to some, a harbinger of the troubles ahead for a nation that will inevitably struggle to absorb its newfound freedoms.
“There is a fine line between the open mind and sexual indulgence,” says Xie Xialing, a professor of sociology at Fudan University in Shanghai.
Even five years ago, Chinese books and magazines were banned from showing pictures of scantily clad models or publishing content deemed to be offensive or morally corrupt. The only sexual content to be found was in sex-education pamphlets or photo books of nude Chinese women sold as “art works” at big-city airports.
Today, however, with China’s economy booming and the government loosening its hold on the personal lives of everyday citizens, magazines are beginning to publish soft-core pornographic photographs, sexual fantasies, even clues about where to pick up call girls.
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