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haonowshaokao.com — Beijing's City Weekend Magazine published a fairly shocking blog about how to (mis)treat local ayis, and swiftly deleted it. This blog entry reprints the deleted entry, with commentary.

www.gochengdoo.com — Apart from an apparently groundwater spring, the old town itself is nothing notable: A single street lined with the same shops selling the same souvenirs and so-called specialty snacks, but at the very least it's possible to stroll along the road without touching the elbow of the visitors to your right and left.

chinahopelive.net — One Chinese author's quest to salvage first-hand accounts of Maoist China - and the dignity and humanity of an entire generation - before it's too late: "This madness has taken hold of me, and will not let me go: I cannot believe that Chinese people always take the truth of their lives with them to the grave."

www.nytimes.com — Some 3 billion fortune cookies are made each year, almost all in the United States. But the crisp cookies wrapped around enigmatic sayings have spread around the world. They are served in Chinese restaurants in Britain, Mexico, Italy, France and elsewhere.
But there is one place where fortune cookies are conspicuously absent: China.

www.china-underground.com — A series of images depicting rare moments of Chinese navy drills during the Cultural Revolution.