smooth jazz posted:

There's over a billion people in China so yea you're gonna get some zany folks every now and then. Hats off to old farmer.

Can I ask a question about toilet paper?

I see signs in a lot of public toilets saying not to throw toilet paper in the toilet and to use the wastebasket instead.

Really?

I'm to throw my sopping diarrhea rags in the open wastebasket or where should I draw the line?

God forbid I back up a toilet in China.

sincx posted:

The answer to you question is, apparently, geese.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2955169/Pictured-Goose-pops-head-box-taped-boot-car-driving-100km-h.html

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One person wrote: 'Hey hey hey! I’m just a goose. Are you trying to get to the moon driving this fast?!!!'

sincx posted:

What are the dogs going to do after their bowls get filled up?

DreamShipWrecked posted:

Since this thread is full of whiteys that give Good Advice: what is the best way to avoid liquifying your organs after every meal on a trip to China? I will be going to Wuhan in the next few years to visit my SO's family and would rather not spend it all on a toilet after years of boring bland Americanized food

E. On an aside apparently her family was shocked that I am thin because when they heard she was dating a white boy they all assumed I was 300lbs because america

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Henan Province was hit by a terrible famine between the summer of 1942 and the spring of 1943 that led to the death of 3 million people (other sources report 1 million deaths).

Another three million people then had to move to other regions to escape hunger. Famine was caused by strong drought, the ongoing destruction of fields by swarms of locusts, the domestic demand for supplies for the troops engaged against the Japanese but also by the unreasonable demands of the government who practically took all goods of the local farmers. A poor harvest turned into a colossal tragedy.

American photographer and Time correspondent Theodore White gave us an eye witness account, since Nationalist government in Chongqing decided to hide it. There were reports of cannibalism and White said: "In the mountain districts there were uglier tales of refugees caught on lonely roads and killed for their flesh. How much of this was just gruesome legend and how much truth we could not judge. But we heard the same tales too frequently, in too widely scattered places, to ignore the fact that in Honan human beings were eating their own kind."

Ultimate Shrek Fan posted:

This is pretty rad. Pre-Mao pictures of china are usually badass, I want more.

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In an audacious heist worthy of a Hollywood plot - a librarian at a leading Chinese fine arts gallery is accused of stealing 143 paintings by grandmasters over the course of two years and replacing them with his own forgeries .

Xiao Yuan, 57, told a court in southern China yesterday that he had substituted the famous works while overseeing a gallery within the library of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts between 2004 and 2006.

The substituted art included landscapes and calligraphies by some of China’s most vaunted artists, including a work by Bada Shanren, “Rocks and Birds”, which is worth an estimated 45 million yuan (£4.7 million).

In his defense Xiao told Guangzhou People’s Intermediate Court that the theft and forgery of art predated his employment and was commonplace at the library.
Xiao said he realised just how rampant the issue was when he noticed some of his own fakes had been replaced by new knock-offs.

“I realised someone else had replaced my paintings with their own because I could clearly discern that their works were terribly bad,” Xiao said in a video of the hearing posted on the court’s website.

During the hearing Xiao pleaded guilty to a corruption charge, apologised to the university, colleagues and family and said he deeply regretted his crime.
Between 2004 and 2011 Xiao sold 125 of the paintings for more than 34 million yuan (£3.5 million) at the Guangzhou branch of China Guardian Auctions, one of China’s leading auction houses. Xiao used the money to buy property and other paintings.

The 18 remaining stolen artworks in Xiao’s collection are estimated to be worth more than 70 million yuan (£7.2 million). The works had not been sold because the auction house dismissed them as forgeries, Xiao said.

Xiao began working at the university library in 2003 when he was hired to digitalise the gallery’s collection of paintings and calligraphies.

As chief librarian he was privy to a set of master keys, giving him access to the gallery at weekends when it was closed to the public, according to Southern Daily, a state-run newspaper. This allowed Xiao to obtain the genuine paintings and replace them with his ersatz work unnoticed.

Xiao was finally caught when a former student of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art noticed the university seal on artworks for sale in Hong Kong. Xiao was arrested in May 2014 and will be sentenced at a later date.

Other works stolen by Xiao include paintings by Qi Baishi, an influential 20th century artist famed for his watercolours depicting nature, and Zhang Daqian, who painted landscapes.
Zhang was himself considered a master of forgery and painted in the style of many celebrated forebears including Bada Shanren.

A number of high profile art forgery cases in recent years have proved that the tradition is far from dead in China.

In 2013, the 60 million yuan (£6.4 million) Jibaozhai Museum in northern China was forced to close after it was revealed that its collection of some 40,000 ancient relics were almost all knock-offs.

Last year, Pei-Shen Qian, a 75-year-old Chinese-American painter accused of forging works by Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, became the centre of one of the biggest art fraud scandals in recent American history.

Prosecutors in New York alleged that Qian had produced dozens of worthless fakes that were sold by two Spanish brokers at prestigious galleries for tens of millions of dollars. Before he was taken into custody Qian fled to China where he is assumed safe from prosecution because China and the US don’t share and extradition treaty.

In an interview with Bloomberg in Shanghai in 2013, Qian said: “The FBI said they were done by the hands of a genius. Well that’s me. How strange it feels!”

Sappo569 posted:

That is one seriously smug bird

swamp waste posted:

GotLag posted:

Anyone heard about this? English-language internet appears to know nothing.


It looks like the guy is trying to use the pump as a flamethrower to set the attendant on fire, fortunately he does not succeed.

angel opportunity posted:

suztan posted:

That, uh, that doesn't really seem normal.

Amorphous Blob posted:

I know Japan kept trying to invade China but why do other asian countries hate each other? And how does it compare to other racial prejudices?

angel opportunity posted:

Bonus pic:

GotLag posted:

Are they sure it's not just spiked with melamine?

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A major dairy firm in China has recalled some of its baby formula products after an "unusual" level of mercury was found by the country's product quality watchdog.

Tuxedo Gin posted:

Walking on the sidewalk also is a risk.

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/24/news/la-girl-engrossed-in-cell-phone-conversation-falls-into-sink-hole-20120424



Better to just stay home.

Tuxedo Gin posted:

the one i linked happened in china

but yours ate a whole building, mine just ate a girl

Tuxedo Gin posted:

also 90% of people, when asked what are their hobbies, reply with "sleep"

Tuxedo Gin posted:

yes we all enjoy sleeping but all non-autists understand that when somebody asks you your hobbies or what you like to do, they are probing to get to know you and your personality. answering "sleep" tells them: 1) you are boring as gently caress, or 2) you do not understand basic social interactions

same with the "what are you doing?" > "chatting with you" poo poo.

Bro Dad posted:

angel opportunity posted:

Moridin920 posted:

is there a bunch of private schools for the rich that aren't total poo poo or what?

i feel like how are they ever going to be innovative in their economy versus just copying everything forever if their entire education system is just 'memorize for tests.' Surely someone somewhere who is slated to be the next chairman or whatever is learning for real?

JaucheCharly posted:

That's too awesome to be true. Looty.

Accretionist posted:

Jesus, I wonder what they'd say about Americans cities? The metro area I live in has about a quarter million people, and the city proper has <100K.

Fojar38 posted:

whats rene chang up to these days

WarpedNaba posted:

Learned a new term today, pity it's an MRA one.

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The idea of an "alpha widow" is something that pops up occasionally here on TRP, and I think it deserves some attention and consideration. The concept is actually very central to why we criticize the CC and why it's harmful for women's long-term mating strategy.

Grand Fromage posted:

Lanzhou has good food but unfortunately also the most polluted city in China. Gansu is coal country.

Grand Fromage posted:

Chinese air pollution is seasonal. If it's not winter then the pollution isn't that bad most places. Winter is when the apocalypse comes.

5er posted:

This picture is great! Did you take it?

WilltheMagicAsian posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqNnyUYd_aU