A strange, strange story in the New York Times today looks at the grass-mud horse craze in China, an effort by a fed-up Chinese citizenry to mock Beijing’s web censorship. Though my understanding of this is somewhere between mediocre and sound, what I can gather is that the grass-mud horse, an alpaca-like animal, sounds exactly […]

A handsome guy over at the Huffington Post published a post about the mass censorship around Asia during last week’s broadcast of the Oscars. Instead of “you commie homo-loving sons of guns,” to viewers watching on CCTV-6 in the mainland, the subtitles read, “you are all so generous.” Read the post here.

Well, to be quite honest, this is pretty much the only thing I could read about a Jackie Chan movie that would make me want to see it. You might be tempted to rebut with, “well what if you heard he and Chris Tucker were doing another Rush Hour?” And to that I would […]

A really handsome guy wrote today about how China is dealing with the release of Guns N’ Roses sixth studio album Chinese Democracy, the band’s first original studio album in 17 years. Is rock and roll’s most anticipated album in years China’s worst nightmare?
Huffington Post: “China Bans Democracy, Declares War on Guns N’ Roses“

Medical professionals in China are warning those who watch the uncensored version of Lust, Caution against replicating the sexual positions seen in the film. Chinese film buffs have taken to illegally downloading the uncut version of Ang Lee’s latest film, a spy thriller based in occupied Shanghai, because the sanitized version playing in Chinese […]

Really good news out of Beijing Thursday for those Olympic athletes who are devoutly religious. Bibles will be permitted in the Olympic Village during the Beijing Summer Games. Not only permitted, but according to Olympic organizers, they are welcome. I know some of you Flumesday readers abroad might be thinking, “why wouldn’t […]

As China’s Communist leaders convene in Beijing for their five-yearly National Congress, it appears state internet censors have blocked access to the online video site YouTube. As of Wednesday night in Shanghai, an attempt to connect to YouTube returns an all too familiar page for Web users in China, a blank page notifying the […]

For those not familiar with China’s governmental procedure, every five years the highest body within the Communist Party gets together in Beijing to discuss Communist Party policy and changes to the Party’s leadership. This is called the National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the 17th meeting of this body occurs next […]

Ang Lee’s newest film, “Lust, Caution,” which took top honors at this year’s Venice Film Festival, will have to be cut significantly before its China release on October 26th. The “spy-thriller,” according to China’s censors, featured too much nasty boot-knocking. According to a Reuters report Wednesday, Lee cut the edited-for-China version himself rather […]

If a Western film has a tenuous plot, plentiful stunts and is about robots that can transform themselves, it is shown in every theater in Shanghai cinemas. But if a Western film has a tenuous plot, plentiful stunts and features a black dude mocking a Chinese guy, it is not shown at all. […]