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Shang Wenjie's selection as China's "Super Girl" was reported on SINA.

Shang had no previous voice training but majored in French at Fudan University. She won China's version of "American Idol" by ...

The Shaanxi provincial government issues rules dictating what nannies and domestic help can wear/do. Chinese suspect the rules fear nannies becoming mistresses.

Chinese netizens argue about Chen Yi (English name Rola Chen), a previous "Super Girl" contestant, when pictures of her lying on top of Japanese and Chinese flags in Japanese magazines appear on the internet. Some Chinese criticize her and call her a traitor. Other Chinese say it is none of their business and she can do what she wants.

Kaiser Kuo's posted a fantastic poem detailing China's various provincial stereotypes. It's hilarious and, more often than not, quite accurate.

A taste:
In Dongbei, whence the Manchus came, the men do like their liquor.
While effusive with their friendship, with their enmity they’re quicker
Though they’re honest and straightforward, at the slightest provocation
They’ll show why they’ve been slandered as the Klingons of this nation.

The leggy Dongbei ladies for their beauty are renowned,

A report by Tianjin TV station on attempts to introduce Australian Rules Football to university students in Tianjin. The report is spoken in Chinese, but contains some good footage of students kicking around a football on a dust bowl.

A girl who worked for the Kappa brand of clothing inside an Orient Shopping Centre in Shanghai suddenly becomes famous when her sex video is spread on the internet. Some Chinese netizens attack her while others argue that what she did was very normal except it was made public.

From the article:
The Tea-Leaf readers will look at [the recent media rules], nod their heads sagely, and in hushed tones suggest that this is a part of Hu Jintao's ongoing effort to deepen his hold over the media as he continues his soft purge of Jiang Zemin supporters left in government. That might be true in part, but as with most things in China, that is at best only part of the real reason (and possibly only a political fig-leaf for the action.)

In reality, I suspect this is as much about money as politics.

A 23 year old pretty Shanghai girl posts her pictures on the Chinese Liba Forum looking for an honest husband, with double eyelids, that can take care of her.

A very outrageous video of Cantonese teens attacking a naked girl in a hotel room while four boys watch and laugh. Supposedly 6-8 of the teens in the video were eventually arrested. NOTE: This video contains nudity.