Beipiao: 北漂, Literally “Beijing vagabond”, referring to the group of people who do not have a Beijing hukou (permanent residence), who migrated to Beijing from other places of China seeking opportunities and better life. Beipiao is also a life style of being a drifter in Beijing.

(MOP) My mother came, stood at the exit of the Beijing train station, waving at me. I took her bag, my father followed in silence. I took them to eat Peking duck, my mother said, “Ay, going to get fat again.” I frowned in anger and said, “You can eat less then.” She picked up the chopsticks and said, “You should have said I am not fat.” Afterwards, she stood in the street of Beijing, looking at me cautiously, and asked, “Where are you taking us?”

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(QQ) Having 59 years of history, the Radio Exercises (广播体操: set of gymnastic exercises for groups conducted through radio music) was stopped in Beijing for the past 3 years, but it will be resumed on august 9, 2010. According to city Federation of Trade Unions spokesperson, 40,000 employees of government organizations, departments and enterprises will be doing the group exercises together along with the music from the “big speakers”.

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(Netease) “Passion Club (天上人间: direct translation is ‘heaven on earth’) apologized to me”, yesterday professional model Lin Ketong told the newspaper that Passion Club Beijing KTV apologized to her on the phone, and posted the apology letter on their website for 10 days.

Prior to that, Beijing’s hottest club/KTV, Passion Club was ordered to suspend its business for rectification for 6 month as part of the Chinese Government’s “Sweeping the yellow” efforts. (扫黄: (sao3huang2) sweeping the yellow: cracking down on pornography and prostitution industry) Since then topics of Passion Club have been the talks of nation and on the Internet. Now its official website was found to be using a photo of Lin Ketong as advertisement without her consent. When Lin was interviewed by the reporter earlier, she said that it caused her emotional stress, and she would defend her legitimate rights and interests by the law. Passion Club also responded to this and closed down the website.

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Did someone say the Chinese didn’t like cheese? A recent article in the Global Times features Beijing native Liu Yang who hopes this isn’t true. While Liu isn’t the only cheese maker in Beijing, news agencies have been swarming his story, a tale that begins with an average computer science career and ends amid smelly cheese vats.

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A ChinaHush reader has informed me about the story of a foreign alleged web-stalker who was recently deported from China.  While this was certainly  not the first time foreigner punished for behaving badly in China, when this article was published on Global Times, the news instantly became a piece of sensational Laowai Gossip.  Perhaps some of the forum users on the Beijinger were already familiar with the situation since supposedly the man did a lot of the stalking on the Beijinger forum and many victims were expats of the Beijinger forum users.  And the alleged stalker even had posted his response to the deportation on the forum.

Many thanks to Wayne Bruce, the author of the original article on Global Times submitted the following article to ChinaHush describing the story in much details.

 
[Deported alleged stalker: Jamie Shorter]

Alleged web-stalker and controversial author deported – Unabridged & Updated Version

By Wayne Bruce

A New Zealand national, alleged to have stalked and threatened Internet forum users, and written a book that he claims to be fictional, about experiences living in Harbin, has been deported from China, police at the Exit and Entry Administration Department of Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau confirmed last week.

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Netease Sports, June 28:

Today a group of Korean-speaking men came out of a Korean style barbecue restaurant near the East Bridge in Beijing.  Several of them were wearing the red Korea DPR football team jerseys, and one of tem was the world-famous “People’s Rooney” Jong Tae-Se who burst into tears during the match against Brazil.  It turned out that the North Korea team did not return home directly after the World Cup loss in South Africa, (nor were they sent to work at the coal mines, or not yet at least) rather arrived in Beijing for a short stay due to a flight transit.

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Everywhere in Beijing, bus stops and magazine stands have advertised the June issue of Cosmo, with a purple-clad Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker on the front cover. As I’m unfamiliar with the international magazine industry as it relates to China, I was eager to obtain a copy and see for myself what this hefty, 362 page issue contained. I flipped past the beauty, the fashion and the countless ads all the way to the end, and I was left feeling a bit unsatisfied. Something important was missing, and it didn’t take long to realize what it was. Where was the sex?

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I spent a day at the Beijing Zoo last week for some intern work, and instead of oggling at the pandas like everyone else, I spent a good chunk of my time petting dogs and cats and feeding small goats at the Children’s Zoo. After comparing my Chinese zoo map with my English one, I discovered that the Chinese version uses the phrase 小动物爱心俱乐部 for “children’s zoo.” Directly translated, it means “Small Animals Affection Club.” I think this is much more fitting for furry creatures like these, don’t you?

From Sina:

Recently, a shanzhai (fake) ATM appeared on the street of Xuanwu district, Beijing. Customers who used this “ATM” soon found that all their money in the bank account disappeared without a trace. Sina Reporter was told by the Beijing Police that the suspect Huang who set up the fake ATM was already arrested on the charge of credit card fraud. This is the first fake ATM case ever cracked in Beijing.

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(From China News)

People in China have just enjoyed the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, to many football fans, this was a timely rain. However, the three day vacation is coming to an end. Many fans began to wonder how they can manage to not miss any upcoming exciting World Cup matches.

Football fan Xiao Yu was just worried about this, so he searched on the Internet for some help. Surprisingly he discovered that someone is selling “doctor’s note for World Cup sick leave”. With doctor’s note in hand, it is like giving the green light to requesting time off, Xiao Yu was really tempted. But, after thinking it through, he still felt a bit indecent, so he called the Chinese News hotline: 85055555.

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Dragon Boat Festival  (or Duanwu Festival) occurs on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar. In 2010 this day falls on June 16. According to the custom the celebrations includes eating zongzi, drinking realgar wine, and racing dragon boats.

Recently, a forum post titled “Korean beauty student teaches you how to eat zongzi” stirred up a storm on the Internet.  One girl claimed to be a Korean student studying in a Language University in Beijing, accused Chinese people do not know the etiquette of eating zongzi and posted a lot of pictures to teach Chinese people how to eat zongzi step by step.  Once the post spread, debate over Dragon Boat Festival echo through the Internet.  So called “Simida zongzi gate”, this post once again sparked off the dispute on Dragon Boat Festival between China and Korea.

Hi, I am a Korean student studying in Beijing Language University.  Now lived in Beijing for 3 years, there are so many different kind of food here, I really like Beijing.

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“In 1993, a businessman named Wen Jingfeng opened China’s first adult sex shop in Beijing. Since then, sex shops have been opened across the country, as the foreign media interpreted as the major symbol of China’s reform”. (From early post: Sexual repression of the stay at home women in China’s rural areas)

The societal views towards sex in China have gone a long way since the old days. However there are still far more uncertainties and inconsistencies about sexuality in this country. Swingers were recently sentenced to prison for “group licentiousness”. Pornography is banned and illegal but a large population of people have them on their cell phones. Prostitution is illegal yet it is as common as barber shops on the streets, literally.  And It is almost socially accepted for wealthy and powerful men to keep multiple mistresses while many people in the lower social classes suffer from sexual repressions…

Introducing RED LIGHT REVOLUTION, finally a film that takes a humorous look at Chinese tradition and post 1949 dogmas colliding with modern sexual value.

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by Chai Jing (柴静) on her Sina blog:

Chai Jing is a CCTV journalist and TV show host. She is the currently the host of CCTV program “face to face” and “24 hrs”.

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As soon as I got into a taxi, the taxi driver looked at where I got in and started to chat with me, “going dancing?”

“No” I didn’t care to talk to him.

He was making conversations “You know the first disco club in Beijing was JJ, at that time I was dancing the Korean xx”

He used a very professional term, I did not understand and glanced at him – an over 30-year-old big fat man?

He understood my look, “When JJ was the hottest I was the most popular male dancer there.”

“What kind of dancing do you do?” I finally had the interest to ask questions.

“Pole dancing”

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From Beijing morning post:

25,000 yuan, for which can only buy you 1 – 2 square meters of housing in Beijing, Yang Nian gave up 60% of his liver. 150,000 yuan, in order to pay for 60% of Yan Nian’s liver, the family of a terminal cancer patient Xie Yousheng (not his real name) was borrowing money from everywhere.

1.5 million patients in China are waiting for organ transplants each year which gave birth to this industry that should have never existed – buying and selling human organs. And the huge profit – from 25,000 to 150,000 also created the group that should never have existed – human organ brokers.

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From Legal Evening News:

The end of last month, a 78 year old retired engineer Huang Rixin (黄日新) built 8 units of “Capsule Apartment” in Liulangzhuang, Haidian district in Beijing. Each unit is less than 2 square meters and can only fit a single bed. The monthly rent for each unit is between 200 – 250 yuan.

After the apartments were built, no one has ever come by. So Huang Rixin opened up the apartment units for “test-living”. After test-living, last night “Capsule Apartment” finally welcomed its first tenant!

10 pm at night, Zhang Qi is reading in bed in the “Capsule Apartment”

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