China

Shelved in fiction: 'Henry Paulson and the Toxic Assets'

Xcellent Xmas Present for Foodies -- Fuchsia

Cheaper McD's in China

McDonald's is lowering its prices in China as the nation's economy slows.[NY Times]The FDA defends its handling of the salmonella peanuts saying they were already investigating the Peanut Corporation of America.[NY Daily News]Some fans of the Biggest Loser are compelled to eat unhealthily while they ... More >>

Young & Restless in China: Red Curtan Gen-Xers

Doc examines the generation changing China

China's Blood-Splattered Olympics

The butcher of Tibet, and America's sporting president

Bollywood Goes East—Far East—For Chandni Chowk to China

The butcher of Tibet, and America's sporting president

Ten Blocks on the Camino Real and Soul of Shaolin

Boxers and kung fu warriors hit our stages

Generation China

Jia Zhangke continues to document his rapidly evolving (self-destructing?) homeland

Now Hiring: Jeffrey Chodorow, Mr. Softee

Jia Zhangke continues to document his rapidly evolving (self-destructing?) homeland

Asia Major

A week of Chinese, Korean, and Thai fests

China Up Against the Wall

What can any of us actually do about the Darfur genocide? A new organization knows.

AND THE WINNER IS . . .

Where to watch the election results

Drowning in Progress

Contemporary China, fluid yet unstable, in Still Life

China Blocks Twitter, Other Web 2.0 Stuff, As Part of Post-Freedom Internet Boom

As we approach the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square uprising, China is apparently blocking Twitter -- and maybe also "Blogger, Flickr... Livejournal, Tumblr, the Huffington Post and Microsoft's Live.com, Hotmail, its MSN Space blog tool and its new search engine Bing," says Fox News. Whew -- ... More >>

'China Underground: Sounds from the Mongolian Grasslands'

As we approach the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square uprising, China is apparently blocking Twitter -- and maybe also "Blogger, Flickr... Livejournal, Tumblr, the Huffington Post and Microsoft's Live.com, Hotmail, its MSN Space blog tool and its new search engine Bing," says Fox News. Whew -- ... More >>

SNOW DAY

Get psyched for winter

Some Like It Hot: 'Stewed Hot Pepper' at Northeast Chinese Food

​The magnificent plate of "stewed hot pepper" at the new Dongbei restaurant in South Flushing. One of the hottest dishes I've enjoyed this year appeared the night before last at Northeast China Food (aka East North Food Culture), a new restaurant just north of the Queens Botantical Garden on ... More >>

Organ Recital: 'Crispy Colorectal' at Northeast China Food in Flushing

​The hilariously named "crispy colorectal" at Northeast China Food. Always on the lookout for new venues for the Organ Meat Society, I stumbled on a shitload--if you'll forgive the expression--at Northeast China Food recently.

Let Us Now Praise Stinky Foods: Taiwanese Stinky Tofu

​It looks so innocuous sitting on the plate, doesn't it? Southeast Asians have their durian, Scandinavians sometimes love lutefisk (especially at Christmastide), but the Taiwanese insist on stinky tofu when it comes to scarfing something really fetid.

China to Ban Public-Space Smoking in 7 Cities

​The anti-smoking ban pioneered in New York have finally caught on in its natural home of Red China, where the totalitarian government has ordered a ban on smoking in indoor public spaces in seven provincial capitals. It's up to the local governments of Tianjin, Chongqing, Shenyang, Harbin, N ... More >>

China Executes the Most People in the World, But Texas Goes Big Too

​Remember how your mom used to tell you that the spanking was because she cared? According to Amnesty International findings published today and reported by the New York Times, China wins the global "tough love" award, having killed more of its own people in 2009 than all other nations combine ... More >>

Morning Links

​Happy Thursday. We wish you a glorious tax/census/free-coffee-from-Starbucks (with reusable travel mug) day. For those productive folks who have already done their taxes and censuses, fear not! Amuse/disturb yourselves with the following: • God help us, Tea Partyers are educated. This ne ... More >>

School Attacks Highlight Mental Illness, Increasing "Social Pressures" in China

​Why do Chinese adults keep attacking Chinese schoolchildren? Most recently: A man broke into a school in the Shandong Province on Friday and beat five preschoolers before setting himself on fire. This has been the fourth assault on Chinese students in just over a month, and the third in thr ... More >>

Sad Things for Lonely People: Recall Issued on Children's Tiaras

​Because the ways in which a pint-sized beauty queen's life may be endangered seem to grow more numerous by the day, we're particularly concerned about the news that 7,300 children's tiaras, made in China and imported by Wilton Industries Inc. (bad, bad, bad!), have been recalled because they ... More >>

Fast Food World: KFC Conquers China, While Subway Grows an Organic Garden in Japan

KFC takes China.​Maybe the best way to regain world dominance is for America to spread one of the phenomena that helped bring us down in the first place. Let's make the world fat and addicted to fast food, just like we are. Did you know that a new KFC opens somewhere in mainland China almost ... More >>

Is North Korea's Kim Jong-il Playing Jimmy Carter?

​We've seen this sort of thing go down before. Someone is all about hanging out with you, emailing, calling, texting...and then when you finally set a date and prepare to meet, he or she debarks for another country spur of the moment, or maybe even stands you up outright. Can such be the case ... More >>

Deer Prefers Beer (Video)

​While we wait for more information on the Discovery Channel gunman situation...um...there's this: There is a deer in China that, apparently, likes to drink beer. Which is slightly less horrifying than a baby in Indonesia who smokes a pack or 10 a day -- maybe?

WikiLeaks Reveals Chinese Leaders Googling Themselves

​"Egosurfing," also known as vanity searching, egosearching, egogoogling, autogoogling, self-googling, master-googling, is now officially a geopolitical issue causing tension between China and the United States. The latest WikiLeaks dump includes diplomatic cables about the problems of balanci ... More >>

Beijing Taxi: Hop On in for a Lux Tour of Contemporary China

​"Egosurfing," also known as vanity searching, egosearching, egogoogling, autogoogling, self-googling, master-googling, is now officially a geopolitical issue causing tension between China and the United States. The latest WikiLeaks dump includes diplomatic cables about the problems of balanci ... More >>

The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday

Welcome to The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday, where we endeavor to remember the very best thing we stuffed down our gullets over the past 24 hours. Why? Because the only thing better than enjoying a meal is wallowing in the memory of one savored in the recent past. Today's fond reminiscences ... Vict ... More >>

Das Racist Are Now Officially Banned In the U.K.

Free Dapwell! All images via DasRacist.net​At least, they were detained in and then deported from that country yesterday, due to "some sticklerism on the part of UK Customs regarding paperwork." Or was it because of their radical political views and brown skin?! The trio has been out in first ... More >>

GAME ON

An exhibit you can control

LOVE ACTUALLY

Get backed into a corner with someone sweet.

Snow: Making New Year's Eve an Even Bigger Shitshow Than Usual

Snow and garbage in China in 2009.​Even though snow, technically, melts, and even though the next series of days have forecasts above freezing, there was just so damn much of it! Which means the snow is expected to hang around, malingering malevolently and slowly melting, through the holiday. ... More >>

Donald Trump Denies 2012 Presidential Run, But Rants About China and OPEC Anyway

Donald Trump, real estate mogul and Celebrity Apprentice boss, went on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon yesterday and played coy, as usual, about a 2012 presidential run. He then ran through the cast of the new Apprentice season which features Mark McGrath, Lil' John, Latoya Jackson and Star Jones. Bu ... More >>

Executions Are Slightly Less Popular These Days

​The world is slightly less into killing people, according to Amnesty International -- or at least, less into killing people by way of official state execution. Approximately 527 people were executed last year around the world, which represents a decrease from the 714 executed the previous yea ... More >>

Artist Ai Weiwei Arrested in Beijing

​Ai Weiwei, one of China's best-known artists and a vocal critic of the Chinese government , has been arrested at the airport in Beijing. Ai was put under house arrest last year and has been harassed by officials in the past, including a forced demolition of his Shanghai studio, but now it seems t ... More >>

The World Is Really Ending This Time!

​I can't stand Chicken Little types who always think the planet is coming to an a tragic end. To me, their whining only adds to the general unpleasantness and their hot air can be detrimental to foliage. But after taking a look at today's headlines, I'm convinced not only that the sky is fa ... More >>

3D Porn Gettin' China All Worked Up

​With all the talk about China being an emerging superpower and formidable economic player, we often forget that they still have to catch up with the good ol' US of A on some fronts. Namely, being cool about porn. The Independent reports that Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy, a multi-million dolla ... More >>

China Bans TV Shows About Time Travel; People's Republic is Bakula-Free

​When it comes to inexplicably banning things, China is a true superpower. The Times reports that China's State Administration for Radio, Film & Television has issued a statement saying they have banned dramas from television that depict people going back in time. The release says that these s ... More >>

Chinese Toddlers Enjoying a Nice Cig Or Two

More children smoking! And quite gleefully, I might add. These little ones in China appear to be maybe three or four years old. As evidence for YouTube commenters being the scum of the earth, see the first two comments on this video: "They're actually fully grown men. Chinese people are ju ... More >>

City of Life and Death Weeps for the Rape of Nanking

More children smoking! And quite gleefully, I might add. These little ones in China appear to be maybe three or four years old. As evidence for YouTube commenters being the scum of the earth, see the first two comments on this video: "They're actually fully grown men. Chinese people are ju ... More >>

Jilted Bride Tries to Jump From Ledge in China; Internet Critiques Her Footwear

Changchun, eastern China: A woman is trying on her wedding dress when her husband-to-be calls off the wedding because he's in love with someone else. The woman is, understandably, devastated. The woman happens to be in an apartment with a window ledge that's 7 stories above ground. She prepares to j ... More >>

North Korea Is Second Happiest Nation, According to North Korea

​According to a ranking done by Kim Jong-il's completely unbiased television station, the best place in the world to hang with happy people is...China! But why would you move there when the second happiest place in the world is North Korea? They're both pretty damn happy. China got a 100 out o ... More >>

Michael Cirino Wanted to Butcher Himself Out of A Whole Steer for Meatopia

Mike Cirino, culinary madman. ​You might have heard of Michael Cirino, the culinary mastermind behind A Razor, A Shiny Knife, after his infamous L train luncheon landed on the pages of the New York Times. Now he's trying something equally as crazy: cooking an entire steer whole for the upcomin ... More >>

There Is a Subway System Crazier Than New York's

It's Beijing's.

Four-Year-Old Chinese Girl Drives a Car [VIDEO]

The above video appears to show a 4-year-old girl in China at the wheel of a car. She is navigating a relatively busy street while her parents can be heard instructing her. Like the smoking baby before her, there is sure to be much outrage about this child exhibiting the dangerous behavior of an ad ... More >>

Extremely Picky Chinese Dater Now in Brooklyn Seeking 'Ivy League' American

​The New York Post has tracked down the so-called "most-hated woman in China," and guess where she is! New York City, of course. Brooklyn, to be exact. Working at a nail salon. Why? 26-year-old Feng Luoyu, described as an "Ugly Girl" seeking marriage with unsufferably high demands, was ostraci ... More >>

Chinese Takeout: Can It Be Good?

Beautiful things can come from foam boxes. ​Long the staple of boozing bachelors and heartbroken chicks in romcoms, Chinese takeout tends to get more flak for its predictable greasiness, dicey quality -- and the fact that it completely bastardizes a highly respected culinary tradition -- than ... More >>

Year of the Takeout: Day 16

​Lobster Chow Fun and Hot and Sour Soup from China Star (145 1st Avenue, 212-777-3888)