Revisiting the Resplendent Mighty Sword Clanging of Hero – Arts & Entertainment

The new version of the martial arts TV drama “Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber (倚天屠龙记)”, adopted from the famous martial arts novel writer Louis Cha (金庸)’s novel, is now being broadcast in many TV stations across China.

Chinese scientists have cloned a pig which was hailed a hero in 2008 after surviving more than a month under earthquake rubble. Hero pig Zhu Jianqiang "surprised us again" said scientists.

Dr. Jiang Yanyong, a Chinese military surgeon who became a national hero after exposing Beijing's cover-up of SARS cases, has asked the government to apologize for the way he has been treated since his 2003 revelation. Jiang writes in his letter that his detention and re-education was "in violation of the Constitution, the Party Charter and army disciplinary rules".

John Kennedy @ GVO posts about the killing of six police officers in Shanghai by 28-year-old Yang Jia (杨佳) at the beginning of July. The interesting bit is that Yang Jia has become a bit of a folk hero in the weeks since his murder spree. BBS conversations are stating that the killings were out of revenge for police brutality he suffered a year earlier that left his junk disabled. True or not - it shows the weird and twisted way in which Chinese BBSes disseminate information.

Big News! Obama won the American general election! Thanks to the mighty power of blog I can tell you this momentous news literally years before future generations will hear it. Remember…you heard it here first folks!

Nicki dishes up a review of Zhang Yimou's new (and now highly controversial) film staring Christian Bale.

Director Zhang Yimou and Executive Producer Zhang Weiping discovered finding an “untarnished beauty” in China is no easy matter. While casting their new film Love of the Hawthorn Tree they auditioned thousands of girls, and had some choice words on the matter.

When Li Shiming was stabbed through the heart by a hired assassin, few of his fellow villagers mourned the local Communist Party official many say made their lives hell by seizing land, extorting money and bullying people for years. Instead, villagers in the northern town of Xiashuixi have made Li's teenage killer something of a local hero.

To add insult to injury, Chang’s comment like this enraged Hongkong folks and many more Chinese netizens, who are still stricken by grief and blamed the deaths of their compatriots on the Philippine police’s amateurish handling of the crisis. Now they are infuriated with their super hero for making nice this fast and demand his apologies.