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The gossip website Gawker has discovered photos of the Spanish Women's tennis team making a 'slanty eye' gesture in reference to an upcoming trip to China. The Spanish men's basketball team has been criticised for making a similar gesture.

I have been stopped on the street, surreptitiously (and occasionally blatantly) photographed, been offered jobs, interviewed by journalists, and overheard people opine about whether or not they approve of me. But I am not famous. No, my skin, my genetic heritage, my physiology is famous. Because I'm white.

After a series of studies on how Chinese people perceive tones in the language, a research team from the Life Sciences College at China Science and Technology University - led by Professor Chen Lin - recently suggested that people speaking Chinese use the right side of their brain more frequently than Westerners who speak English and that Chinese should pay more attention to the potential developm

Do Westerners unconsciously look down on Chinese people? Do Chinese people have a reason to despise their round-eyed, fair skinned friends? This post examines these issues from the perspective of an American living as a Chinese blue collar worker.

Chinese Women's Ice Hockey Team recently qualified for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. But the poor living standards of these female players cast clouds on over the future of ice hockey in the country.

State media have been updating on the climbing death toll as the scale of the cyclone disaster unfolds, but in the same manner that they might report a minor landslip on the other side of the planet. Newsflash: this is happening next door - so pull your fingers out!

Nothing like a little act of hostility moments before a worldwide gesture of cooperation and friendliness (Olympics). Thanks, George. We gotta love ya! How about just sitting back, relaxing and enjoying the games instead???

Meg over at Violet Eclipse gives us this recent photo-post that shows the eerie side of the off-season in Chinese amusement parks. Funny stuff.

An old Chinese saying goes: "People regard food as their prime want." The greeting words of Chinese people are so distinctive and well-known around the world: “have you eaten?” People often greet their friends or acquaintances in this way in China. Though this custom has changed among young people and is most prevalent in rural areas, it shows how Chinese people attached great importance to their food.