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Will we all burn in a fire made of mooncake packaging?

Posted Friday, September 05, 2008 5:35 AM by will
Imagethief likes the Mid-Autumn Festival. I like it because even though it actually comes in late summer, it reminds me of autumn, and autumn is famously the nicest time of year in Beijing. In any year devoid of Olympic rigging, late summer in Beijing Read More...
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Would sir like lung cancer or deafness with his old age?

Posted Thursday, August 28, 2008 9:53 PM by will
Like a giant kid who's been holding a fart in during a three week elevator ride, Beijing has apparently relaxed its many industrial sphincters and let a big one rip. That's the only way I can explain the lighting-fast deterioration in air quality. In Read More...
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Olympic pavilions deconstructed

Posted Thursday, August 21, 2008 5:43 AM by will
For those who are a bit weary of the whole idea of corporate pavilions, Media magazine has a witty review of the pavilions of all of the Olympic TOP sponsors. Each is helpfully compared to the Olympic athlete or icon that it most resembles. Two examples: Read More...
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Good to see Guangzhou has its priorities straight

Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 6:53 AM by will
From the "you couldn't make it up" department here in Imagethief Towers, an old-school China Daily gem: City gets tough on foreign jaywalkers By Zhan Lisheng (China Daily) The southern Chinese city of Guangzhou is taking stern action against foreigners Read More...
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The Onion: The Beijing Olympics: Are they a trap?

Posted Friday, August 01, 2008 2:34 AM by will
A hysterical, must-watch video "news" segment from satirical newspaper The Onion , which excels at humor that stings because it skirts the edge of first-glance credibility. Hat tip: Brendan O'Kane . Read More...
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And I suggest you put on a tie...

Posted Thursday, July 31, 2008 11:03 PM by will
Showing that there is no level of micromanagement too infinitesimal for the Olympics, the Beijing city government has issued detailed (and I mean detailed) instructions on personal grooming and behavior to millions of households. From the Times (UK): Read More...
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E-Z steps to make your own Beijing air at home

Posted Wednesday, July 30, 2008 1:12 AM by will
Imagethief realizes that he and much of the journalistic and blogging community have been doing a grave disservice to our readers who don't live in Beijing. We beg your forgiveness. Living in Beijing is such an all-consuming experience that we sometimes Read More...
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Introducing the Jinan precision Segway assault squad!

Posted Thursday, July 03, 2008 5:45 AM by will
An "anti-terrorism" drill in Jinan: Yeah, these guys won't be difficult to target at all... Also featured in this quite clearly made-for-TV exercise, a demonstration of that most selective and discriminate of urban pacification weapons, the flame thrower Read More...
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Why do Americans like to hate on poor Jing Jing and Cha Cha?

Posted Tuesday, May 20, 2008 11:46 PM by will
Another year, another congressional hearing at which American technology and Internet firms are taken to task for propping up the Golden Shield. This time it's Cisco taking it on the chin, thanks to the emergence of an internal presentation in which they Read More...
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You are liable for any misuse of the contents of the advice

Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 12:51 AM by will
I've been looking at this message for the past four years: "You are liable for any misuse of the contents of the advice". Some of you may recognize this as the warning that all Chinese ATMs give you if you have the temerity to ask for a printed transaction Read More...
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Humorless heat hassles Hashers

Posted Friday, April 25, 2008 6:08 AM by will
Back when he lived in Singapore many of Imagethief's friends used to run with the Hash House Harriers, the "drinking club with a running problem". Imagethief, being a solitary, sober runner used to give that miss. But it did sound like a sloshing good Read More...
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2007 best-of-Imagethief and statistics

Posted Tuesday, February 05, 2008 11:01 PM by will
There is no such thing as a dull year in China. 2008 is well underway and already looks like another whopper. We're only a month in and we've already had the biggest storms in half a century. The Olympics, the mother of all China events, is now a scant seven months off. God only knows what will happen in between. Read More...
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Ich Bin Ein Beijinger: Beijing reloaded

Posted Sunday, January 27, 2008 9:26 PM by will
I pinch-hit for Kaiser on the back page of That's Beijing's January issue. Thanks to my stint in Shanghai it's the first time in nearly a year that I've written something for them. Fittingly, I wrote about moving back to Beijing from Shanghai. The column Read More...
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When Chinese press conference cliches go wrong

Posted Monday, January 21, 2008 6:43 AM by will
Imagethief has always been annoyed by the Chinese inclination to festoon press conferences with flowers. Spokespeople get corsages. Dais tables and podiums get bouquets. You'd think you were at a wedding if weren't for the fact that everyone is bored Read More...
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Pardon me if I don't salute China's plastic bag ban

Posted Monday, January 14, 2008 6:35 AM by will
To look at the news surrounding China's recent announcement of a ban on thin plastic bags you'd think the gates to environmental heaven had just swung open. I'm sure I could see those very gates if the air outside my office windows wasn't full of nitrogen Read More...
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