From Baidu:

“山寨 Shanzhai”culture is still popular in China. "Shanzhai" literally means "mountain village" or “mountain stronghold” and implies lack of official control. Shanzhai culture began when name-brand knockoffs flooding the market. However as it gains popularity its meaning expands. Shanzhai is not limited to imitation and pirated products but also parody to many mainstream culture and famous people and things look alike, like the model of the Beijing national stadium made out of sticks, Shanzhai spring gala show and so on. It becomes a new spirit and a laughing stock among the Chinese public which adds fun into their daily life but of course this still can’t be the justification for rip-off products.

Whether Shanzhai culture is the grassroots creativity or a violation of intellectual property, it’s popular among the people.

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Tiger, in China has always been used to signify people and thing with energy and authority, carrying a commendatory tone. Wendi Deng Murdoch married to the chairman and chief executive officer of News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch now is characterized as tigress by netizens because of her quick and powerful reflexes to smack down an attacker during the “phone hacking scandal” press conference.

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From Dushi Women News:

“How much does it cost to snag a rich husband?”

“20,000 to 30,000 yuan.”

“How long does it take?”

“10 to 30 lessons.”

The Moral Education School for Girls (德育女学馆) is hot in Beijing. It teaches girls how to behave properly, how to put on makeup, how to communicate with rich man. Many girls who want to snag a rich man come to take the lessons and find them useful.

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From iFeng:

"山寨Shanzhai’ (knockoff) was once a buzz word referring to imitation and pirated brands and goods in China. Shanzhai products always have the obvious "signature": its crappy-looking appearance and dirt-cheap price. Thus a consumer buys the knockoff products and is prepared for its bad quality. For that reason, one doesn’t feel much cheated after buying the Shanzhai products. Now there’s another kind of Shanzhai- imitation foreign brands products. This time, the "signature’ is gone, for those imitation foreign brands products are well packaged, sold at a far more higher price, and with a fake "foreign-made" label.

DaVinci brand furniture is a well-known luxury brand in China. The price of a DaVinci single bed can be more than 100,000 yuan. The reason for its high price, as the company claimed, is because "DaVinci is an Italian international super brand and its furniture is produced in Italy. In addition, its raw materials are high-quality natural materials without pollution".

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From Eastday:

A teacher from Shanghai Maritime University became famous because of a piece of Weibo (micro-blog) he wrote “go buy an iPad during the summer break. If you don’t have money, just earn it by yourself. If you can’t get 4000 yuan in two months, it means you are not suitable to be majoring in finance, neither to be my student.” These controversial words spread widely through the internet. (He later deleted this post on his Weibo and even changed his name)

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From QQ:

Gao Xue is a 31-year-old woman living in a small village in Chong Qing. Now she becomes the center of a heated discussion online. when she decided to give up her own baby and husband for an unrelated baby she found on the street. She had an abortion when she is 5 months pregnant in order to concentrate on bringing up the adopted baby.

On a cold windy night on 2007 November, Gao Xue and her husband was on their way back home from work when they found an infant in the garbage. The baby boy had turned blue in the cold. "This baby is sick. He has been abandoned three times." the passing street cleaner told the couple. Looking at the baby, Gao Xue, who was 3-month pregnant, and her husband decided to take the baby back home and later named the baby Doudou.

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How about this news in China echoing the recent Catherine Kieu case in the United State?

From Guangzhou Daily:

“I can’t bear other woman falling in love with you. Kill me, let’s go to hell.” Yin (alias) smiled and gave her boyfriend Liang Quan (alias) a bloody knife while Liang’s penis was bleeding heavily. This tragedy happened at 4 am, on July 12 in Dongguan, an industrial city in Guangdong Province. Yin was so angry that Liang wanted to break up with her for the third time. After Liang fell asleep, she cut his penis with a knife, it was almost completely detached from his body.

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From Sina:

On July 16^th in spite of objection from Chinese government, Barack Obama met with Dalai Lama at the White House for 45 minutes, praising him for embracing non-violence while reiterating that the United States did not support Tibet independence. Chinese government accused Obama of "interfering with China’s internal affairs. In a statement released on Sunday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said, "This action is a gross interference in China’s internal affairs, which hurts the feelings of the Chinese people and damages Sino-U.S. relations."

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The current flurry of rumors concerning the demise of former president Jiang Zemin are a clear reminder that while today’s China is light years away from the rigid isolation of the Cultural Revolution, the world of elite politics remains nearly as opaque and mysterious as it was in the 1970s. As the current generation of China-watchers attempt to peer over the walls of Zhongnanhai as it prepares for next year’s leadership transition, they employ many of the same methods and sources used in the era of Mao Zedong, himself perennially reported to be dead or dying since the mid-1950s.

Working with as little information as they had, it is perhaps not surprising that much of the China reporting of Mao’s time has proven sometimes wildly inaccurate in retrospect. But many of the worst blunders were due not simply to a lack of accurate sources, but flawed and simplistic thinking which remains just as seductive almost forty years later. As speculation mounts over the lineup of China’s imminent “fifth generation” of leaders, observers today would do well to remember the lessons of the PRC’s first major leadership transition in 1976.

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From GZSB via Sina

Xiao Juan is a 26-year-old woman living in Weining (Guizhuo Province). On the night of Jun 27, she and her boyfriend went to their friend’s birthday party. It was very late and they decided to settle down in a hotel nearby. At midnight, Xiao Juan went to the public toilet outside their room. After that, she went into the neighboring room by mistake.

Still not very awake, Xiao Juan thought the man in the room was her boyfriend and had sex with him. After that, the man quickly got dressed and prepared to leave. Xiao Juan was confused and asked where he was going. The man said he was going to the restroom. When the man got up then she was able to tell that he was not her boyfriend, but he quickly ran away.

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From IFeng:

Uncle, could you help me to go to the parents meeting?

A high school senior girl was looking for someone to pretend to be her parent and go to the parents meeting because she got a zero on a recent exam.

When netizen, by the name of (小奇葩) "little exotic flower" heard about the parents meeting this Friday, she was totally anxious about it. Running out of ideas, she decided to post this request on the Internet. To her surprises, many netizens were very excited and keen on helping her out. Now one male candidate was already successfully hired by her.

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