Blog Tag - chinaSMACK

Favoring the Foreigners: Do Laowai Have it Easier in China than Waidiren?
Chinasmack has posted a translation of a video that's been making the rounds on Youku and Youtube contrasting the living situations and standards of...
Countdown! Our Biggest Blogs – #10
To celebrate the upcoming anniversary of the Beijinger magazine, we're taking a look back at the 11 most-read posts in the history of TheBeijinger...
Is A Stranger's Bedroom Art?
Voyeurism is so hot right now. It's all over cable TV, social media and the evening news, and we may as well admit: Yes, it’s hard to escape...
Chun Yun Travails
The Spring Festival move has started. Chun Yun is the world’s largest yearly human migration and it is expected that half of China’s population will...
Beijing Miracle: A Crippled Man Walks!
Christmas is the time for miracles, which makes it only fitting that Beijing is experiencing its own winter wonders. A Chinese blogger has captured...
Beijing Traffic Congestion Reaches Breaking Point
On several nights last week while cycling home I was caught in traffic jams around the Gongti area so bad that even my trusty bicycle couldn’t get...
See the Vintage Red Army Perform MJ's "Beat It"
Here are a couple of amusing videos to help pass the last afternoon of the working week. One of the latest trends in China’s hyperactive cyberspace...
The Wild, Wile Web: Ever-Elusive, chinaSMACK founder Fauna
The decidedly low-key and ever-mysterious translator and blogger Fauna has built up chinaSMACK (www.chinasmack.com) into one of the most interesting...
Laowai: He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
It’s a perennial subject in China’s online world, and once again a local female blogger has raised a divisive question – to date foreigners or not?...
Han Han on Haibao: “Does he have a butt crack?”
“Haibao makes my head hurt. When everyone saw that he was flat, it raised a big problem for those who were trying to make three-dimensional Haibaos...
KFC Customers Get Fried
Ever wondered what takes to get a crowd of Beijingers really fired up? Seems KFC have found the right formula. When we read initial reports about “...
Modern World Stopped by Naked Chinese Man!
Our favorite blog ChinaSMACK has a very amusing translation of a post on the Chinese site MOP, detailing the attempts of a portly naked Chinese man...
Quick Links: iPhone Pop & the Perils of  Lip-synching
Here are two cute videos currently doing the rounds in China’s virtual realm. A young women calling herself PixieTea has posted a pop song called “...
Bridging the Divide: New China Blog
There are as many China blogs as there are tomes about the PRC lining bookshop shelves. As of today there’s another one to add your RSS Feeds: china...