So finally, we have a resolution to the international dispute over two Chinese bronze heads that sold last week as part of Yves Saint Laurent’s estate sale. The statues, that Beijing claims were looted from China nearly 150 years ago by foreign aggressors, were sold to a Chinese bidder Cai Mingchao, who paid $40 million […]

UPDATE 3/4: The saga of the canceled Oasis shows continues… The Guardian published a story today claiming that China’s canning of the two concerts had nothing to do with Tibet, and everything to do with the finance troubles of the concert promoter. This would not explain why the government would shut down the shows, but […]

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.

Nothing sweetens an ongoing cultural property dispute like a little blackmail. As I wrote about last week, two bronze heads were plundered from Beijing’s Summer Palace over 150 years ago, and somehow ended up in the possession of Yves Saint Laurent, whose art collection is going under the hammer this week in Paris. China has […]

Those of you familiar with The Princess Bride probably know the fire swamp scene pretty well. After Westley and Buttercup survive the first two deadly terrors of the fire swamp — the flame spurt and the lightning sand — Westley assures his lady that the third terror, the R.O.U.S.’s (rodents of unusual size), are […]

For days now, China has protested the sale of two bronze statues on the block at a Christie’s auction this week in Paris. The two bronzes in question were reportedly looted from the Summer Palace in during the Second Opium War in 1860 and ended up in the hands of the late Yves Saint […]

I don’t speak Cantonese so I have absolutely no idea what she’s saying, but rest assured this, in no way, will interfere with your enjoyment. I would turn your volume down.

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 […]

The great English-language website chinaSMACK posted the best photoshopped images from last week’s TVCC building fire at CCTV headquarters. Since Beijing narrowly avoided a massive tragedy with this one, it seems okay to laugh at the explosion of photoshop creativity that can only be found on the Chinese blogosphere. Here’s my favorite:

Go to chinaSMACK […]

In Variety Friday, Clifford Coonan writes about a new film, The Great Cause of China’s Foundation, an epic, feature-length homage to Mao’s revolution starring every huge mainland star. 2009 marks the 60th anniversary of the communist revolution and I guess, what better way to convince a country of a billion people that Mao was a […]