LMFAO inChina

This is a good one!!! China actually ha a commission to prevent fraud in its officials? Oh yeah, and things like prostitution and copyright violation are illegal and we see how well thats worked for them…in a country where 80% of all billionaires and 90% of all millionaires are CChinese communist party members pr their kids, who can believe them? “BEIJING, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) — The 17th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) of the Communist Party of China (CPC) opened its sixth plenary session here Sunday to arrange anti-corruption work for 2011. The CCDI meeting will discuss how to improve anti-corruption work and address problems the public complained most about, officials with the CCDI told Xinhua.”

Pushing and Shoving Into the Chinese Subway

Real Chinese Rickshaws

By Dawanglu SOHO in Beijing.

Filial Piety in China

Filial piety in China from The Civilization of China (Herbert Allen Giles) “In Chinese life, social and political alike, filial piety may be regarded as the keystone of the arch. Take that away, and the superstructure of centuries crumbles to the ground. When Confucius was asked by one of his disciples to explain what constituted filial piety, he replied that it was a difficult obligation to define; while to another disciple he was able to say without hesitation that the mere support of parents would be insufficient, inasmuch as food is what is supplied even to horses and dogs. According to the story-books for children, the obligation has been interpreted by the people at large in many different ways. The twenty-four standard examples of filial children include a son who allowed mosquitoes to feed upon him, and did not drive them away lest they should go and annoy his parents; another son who wept so passionately because he could procure no bamboo shoots for his mother that the gods were touched, and up out of the ground came some shoots which he gathered and carried home; another who when carrying buckets of water would slip and fall on purpose, in order to make his parents laugh; and so on. No wonder that Confucius found filial piety beyond his powers of definition.” ==========

Chinese Travelers

This is the heart of China.

In China, The Emperor Was God’s Representitive on Earth- Chinese Leaders in Direct Contact with God?

In the past, Chinese thought that the emperor was God’s chosen rep on earth. Nowadays its the communists. No wonder they dont allow the Pope to elect his Bishops here. from The Civilization of China (Herbert Allen Giles) “The Son of Heaven is of course the Emperor, who is supposed to be God’s chosen representative on earth, and responsible for the right conduct and well-being of all committed to his care. Once every year he proceeds in state to the Temple of Heaven at Peking; and after the due performance of sacrificial worship he enters alone the central raised building with circular blue-tiled roof, and there places himself in communication with the Supreme Being, submitting for approval or otherwise his stewardship during the preceding twelve months. Chinese records go so far as to mention letters received from God. There is a legend of the sixth century A.D., which claims that God revealed Himself to a hermit in a retired valley, and bestowed on him a tablet of jade with a mysterious inscription. But there is a much more circumstantial account of a written communication which in A.D. 1008 descended from heaven upon mount T’ai, the famous mountain in Shantung, where a temple has been built to mark the very spot. The emperor and his courtiers regarded this letter with profound reverence and awe, which roused the ire of a learned statesman of the day.” ==========

Chinese Masochism

I went to the bank today, yes Chinese banks are open on Sundays, and I went to the bank not because I am a masochist, but because I needed some cash.The problem is that the term ‘service’ when used in conjunction with any Chinese company, is a misnomer. Chinese banks exemplify this. One would think that in a country of 1 300 000 000 people, companies providing a service , could rustle up a few dozen souls with a sense of alacrity, but in China this seems impossible. Dont get me wrong, your typical china-man using the banking facilities has beaten Darwin at his own game and some how has not been thinned from the heard, but this is no reason for such putrid service at all. Today I witnessed men and women bankers, ill-trained in the art of cordiality, burn a 2 minute service into 24, with the gaggle of elderly Chinese wearing mismatched knock off sneakers and hunched over paper sacks filled with bank notes. showing the bankers greyish teeth, none of which could agree with its neighbor neither in size nor placement, they haggled over everything from the sharing of their paasswords, to the size of their account. The process is a microcosym of Chinese living, too many people with too few life skills. The banks by Xidan are much better.

Buy a Car in Beijing- But Can You Drive? Not Enough License Plates in China

” BEIJING, Sunday 9 January 2011 (AFP) – Over 215,000 people applied for car licences in Beijing this month, but only 20,000 will be issued as the capital seeks to curb its massive traffic jams, state press said Sunday. Under a new system aimed at controlling the number of cars on Beijing streets that began this year, applicants must apply in the first eight days of the month for the 20,000 available plates issued monthly. According to Xinhua news agency, 215,425 people applied for the January allotment. A lottery on January 26 will decide who gets the licences and the right to buy a new car. Under the new rules, only 240,000 new cars will be registered in Beijing this year, compared to the record 800,000 automobiles that took to the streets of the capital last year, the report said.” [delya +22 hours]

China Knocking off Dubai?

Chinese Innovation. From here With a generous infusion of Saudi Arabian cash, officials in Beijing are planning a $1.3 billion hotel inspired by the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa hotel in Dubai, pictured. They hope the “seven-star” hotel will become a Beijing landmark, according to the Beijing Morning Post (via China Daily). An unnamed Chinese official told AFP that the Saudis are to fund the entire hotel (whose seven stars are self-appointed, as no formal agency doles out more than five stars to hotels). It’s unknown whether the building will try to top the 2,717-foot-tall Burj Khalifa. Chinese leaders are no doubt hoping that their project involves no replay of the final stages of the Dubai project last January.A few weeks after the monster hotel opened to great fanfare, the tiny Middle Eastern nation plunged into a debt crisis.

Ancient China and Divorce

The Civilization of China (Herbert Allen Giles) written circa 1890 “..are practically unknown in China; and the same may be said of divorce. A woman cannot legally divorce her husband. In rare cases she will leave him, and return to her family, in spite of the fact that he can legally insist upon her return; for she knows well that if her case is good, the husband will not dare to risk the scandal of an exposure, not to mention the almost certain vengeance of her affronted kinsmen. It is also the fear of such vengeance that prevents mothers-in-law from ill-treating the girls who pass into their new homes rather as servants than daughters to the husband’s mother. ==========