From the Yomiuri Online via Pink Tentacle. This is a photo of a new Olympic-themed statue found in Beijing. The statues depict five Mickey Mouse-like characters engaging in Olympic sports. You may have heard about the controversy surrounding a bunch of knock-off Disney characters at Beijing’s Shijingshan Amusement Park. Well, guess what? This ain’t Mickey […]
Hey Mickey?
July 24th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Maolympics 2008
China’s Neocons
July 24th, 2008 · No Comments
This is a very lengthy, but fascinating story in the New Yorker titled Angry Youth — The new generation’s neocon nationalists. It’s too long to try and pick through paragraph by paragraph, but I want to give you a sense so that you might print it out and read it.
The piece starts with a desciption […]
Tags: Politics