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Perhaps you’ve already seen this. Still, we’re going to add to the madness because it’s fun, and because sometimes even very serious China watchers like us enjoy watching videos about crazy men with knives wearing underwear and threatening their bosses.
First, the video (h/t to Ryan of Lost Laowai, click the link if the embed doesn’t [...]

“Shanghai doesn’t welcome you,
Unless you’re coming to buy something,
But we don’t have any money on us,
Shanghai doesn’t welcome you,
The 2010 World Expo [hosted by Shanghai] is really great,
All the rich people from all over the world will be united [in Shanghai]“

Recently, things have gotten a bit serious here at ChinaGeeks, so in order to combat the crushing depression that comes from constantly writing about depressing things, we’re instituting a new series: Art, Dammit. Art, Dammit will appear unexpectedly from time to time, covering whatever we find that’s worthy of your time (or maybe isn’t). Today’s [...]

Today the New York Times published a piece called Now Hip-Hop, Too, Is Made In China about the emerging Chinese hip-hop scene. It asserts that hip-hop’s popularity is growing fast in China among young and working class people despite the fact that rappers cannot broadcast their music through mainstream channels. As the Times points out, [...]