If need to know what your favorite NFL team is in Chinese, then you can consult Chinese Characters for NFL Teams at about.com. Like most of about.com’s website, it is not very user friendly, but it did help me to learn I am a fan of the 巨人 （even though they lost terribly to the 维京人 this Sunday). You can also check out other teams from inferior sports such as Chinese Characters for NBA Teams and Chinese Characters for English Soccer Teams. Enjoy!
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A story that seems to crazy to be fake, Used condoms winding up in people’s hair:
USED condoms are being recycled into hair bands in southern China and selling well in local markets and beauty salons.
But they could spread the sexually transmittable diseases the condoms were originally meant to prevent, state media said today.
Rubber hair bands had been found in local markets and beauty salons in Dongguan and Guangzhou cities in southern Guangdong province, China Daily newspaper said.
“These cheap and colourful rubber bands and hair ties sell well … threatening the health of local people,” it said.
Despite being recycled, the hair bands could still contain bacteria and viruses, it said.
“People could be infected with AIDS, warts or other diseases if they hold the rubber bands or strings in their mouths while weaving their hair into plaits or buns,” the paper quoted a local dermatologist as saying.
I just wonder where they get all the used condoms from?
…and don’t forget to enter the RedKemp 1 year anniversary contest, time is running out!
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If I understand the flow correctly from flickr user tlanders28, the books go from here:
To here:
To being neatly arranged on the self. Thanks catalogers!
…and thanks to Library Stuff for the link.
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What with the combined influence of work, grad school and looking for more work, the first anniversary of RedKemp completely slipped by mind. This blog has now been going for over a year now, and to celebrate you select few who glance upon this page I would like to introduce the inaugural:
RedKemp MS Paint Challenge!
The rules are quite simple.
- Create an image in MS Paint (or the mac or open source equivalent) that reflects the given subject, My Most Memorable China Moment
- Post the image in your blog, and let me know by leaving a comment or sending an email and I will create a link to it on this post. If you don’t have a blog, you can send me the image at redkemp at gmail.com and I will upload it to this post.
This contest is open to everyone including
- People who live, or have lived in China
- People who have visited China
- People who only know about China through movies, Chinese food and 11th grade global studies class
The creator of the winning entry, judged by me, will be featured on this site and will have lavish praise heaped upon their artwork and themselves. They will also, if they have paypal, win 1 AMERICAN DOLLAR! If they don’t have paypal, I will draw a picture of a dollar and email it to them.
The last day of this contest is Monday, November 19th. If no one responds by that time (as often happens in these internet contest) I will feature a personal drawing of a kitten and buy myself a delicious Baby Ruth candy bar with the dollar (2 if they are on sale).
With the ground rules laid out, let the MS Painting begin!
Contest Entries
What you will see, 4AM, Meridian Gates, Beijing at Twisted Dark Force
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A few days ago I had the opportunity to go to a forum featuring James Kynge, author of China Shakes the World
. I still have not read the book; it is on my increasingly long reading list, right behind William Gibson’s Spook Country. A few major points from the talk:
Drawing the Chinese into the international arena, and having them be participants in it, will make them more susceptible to international pressure
The West has been trying force China to be like them for 400 years, we should now try to watch and react.
Young Chinese people are huge materialist
The differences between Chinese generations are staggering, even between 5 years
China has now taken a long-term approach to Taiwan integration
The CCP is getting stronger. At the same time regional governments are getting stronger, which causes problems for the CCP when trying to enforce their laws, for example environmental protection laws.
The opening up of the media in China could actually increase support of the CCP. First it would make the political process more transparent. Second, by weeding out corruption at the local level where most of the more heinous corruption resides, it would decrease civil unrest.
While some of these points are not necessarily earth shattering, they come from a highly respected source (16 years in China, former Beijing Bureau Chief for the Financial Times). And unlike a lot of China experts, he seemed to both be in touch with what is going on in China, and actually care about the country.
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