The NY Times has a very sad story about the incredibly daunting situations faced by the families of the mentally ill in China. Lack of institutional infrastructure, education and understanding about mental health, and government investment have left millions without an avenue to treatment and recovery, often resulting in unfathomably bleak and violent results.
The dearth [...]
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November 11, 2010
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Mentally ill and their families are lost in China
By sushipan in only in china
October 18, 2010
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Cityweekend has good intentions for its advertisers!
By sushipan in funny, media, only in chinaI know Cityweekend is not exactly the bastion of wonderful journalism here, but it was still funny to read a recent article titled “10 Ways to Detox the Body in Shanghai,” which packaged a list of some no-brainer health tips in some not-so-subtle whore-wrap. Some particularly egregious product placement snippets:
Watch what you eat: Eat plenty [...]
September 1, 2010
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Vimeo blocked in China again?
By sushipan in only in chinaAs of 1:37 pm local Shanghai time, Vimeo is not accessible in China without a proxy. This kind of stuff used to be news, but now it’s just met with a shrug by most people. Unfortunately for us at Republic, we use Vimeo a lot to show our work, as un-blocked Vimeo always loaded pretty fast, compared to [...]
August 31, 2010
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China Unicom Jailbreaking iPhones in-store (via CW)
By sushipan in only in chinaFrom CityWeekend:
As if Apple doesn’t have enough problems with iPhone and iPad piracy here, China Unicom’s latest stunt is just a little bit ridiculous. The telecoms giant is now offering an in-store jailbreaking service for iPhones, meaning that devices that are locked to a particular service provider can be used with a Unicom SIM.
According to [...]
June 21, 2010
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JBL poster cracks me up
By sushipan in funny, only in chinaThe lady at the JBL kiosk in the Zhongshan Park Yongle electronics store saw me looking at the following JBL marketing poster:
She started pointing at some of the celebrities on the poster. “See? That’s Michael Jackson!”
I kept staring at it.
“And Bill Clinton!”
I was focusing on the two athletes on the bottom row, semi-retired boxer Osca [...]
May 22, 2010
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Armless Chinese man: Inspiration up the wazoo
By sushipan in only in chinaOk, I have to admit, this one really got me. From ChinaHush:
May 19, 2010 at noon, an amazing scene on the pedestrian bridge walkway in front of the south entrance to Foxconn Corporation, Shenzhen captured people’s eyes. From Shandong province, an optimistic man with no arms used his feet and wrote down some inspirational words [...]
December 14, 2009
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Citic Bank marketing dude should get head examined
By sushipan in funny, media, only in chinaOne commercial that has been playing over and over again in that detestable FocusMedia screen inside the elevator of my apartment building is for China Citic Bank’s new line of “fragrant” bank cards. Yes, folks, after doing some quick Baidu research, I have confirmed that these cards really do give off some sort of scent. [...]
November 24, 2009
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