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A picture is perhaps worth a thousand words, but each of these audio snapshots is worth at least a thousand pictures.

Great photo by Reuters' Daniel Aguilar of Chinese dancers performing the thousand hands of Guanyin at the Olympic Village.

The following series of photos, taken from my new book of photography ‘CHINA: Portrait of a People,’ are what I personally consider the most beautiful sites of Old China; those remote villages that have yet to meet China’s wrecking ball, and a proud people contented to proceed with their antediluvian customs as they have for five thousand years.

Black and White Cat comments on a photo of Lin Hao, the 9-year-old Sichuan quake survivor that helped rescue two of his classmates. Lin accompanied Yao Ming in the opening ceremony, but what might not have been immediately noticeable was that his flag was upside down. After sending out the photo, Xinhua immediately issued a notice to news agencies not to use the image.

A fantastic article about Hu Jie, a Chinese documentary filmmaker, and his quest to bring to light the story of Lin Zhao - a defiant woman who was arrested and eventually executed during Mao's Anti-Rightest Campaign of the late 50s, and who used her own blood to continue writing her critical analysis of the times from prison. In Hu's own words - the story shows how far China has come.

Enter Laonei's photo contest to get your photo hung up in 798, Beijing's world famous art district. The winners not only gets their photograph printed, framed, and hung up in 798, they also win a 2GB iPod Shuffle, a Bookworm gift card, or a bottle of fine wine! Sorry, no gold medals!

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The movie introduced several Chinese words to the world, such as Oogway, Shifu, Wushi Finger, etc. Check to see the original meanings in Chinese.

There have been a few posts about curse words in Chinese, but this is the first to my knowledge that actually has audio on how to say them - you don't get that on ChinesePod ;-)

Gong found a pile of garbage on one street, and he immediately took a photo by his mobile phone, and then he sent the photo to Changsha Digital urban supervision center. The center immediate assigned tasks to sanitation workers. Half an hour after, the rubbish was cleaned up. Gong sent a photo of the after-cleaning street to the center.