Check out what you get when you visit this link for the Google map entry for Lanzhou China. While it should open far east of where it does, the spot in the desert that it actually shows is a little bit strange. Maybe it's a bug in the map?
It sort of looks like a moldy sand-bird.
Zooming out shows that we're not actually looking at Lanzhou, but someplace far west of there. The arrow shows the location of moldy bird.
Can anyone explain what's going on here?
This is weird. China, arguably the world's worst copyright offender seems to be aggressively defending the copyright of their five year plans on wikipedia.
I'm not sure of the motivation behind this, but I thought it was certainly worth a post. Here's a screenshot of the wiki page where the content has been removed:
Here's an interesting post from angrylaowai.com drawing an interesting comparison between the new Shanghai Expo 2010 mascot and a character that many of us know and love from our childhood. Have a look at the mascot on the right and tell me if he think you resembles Gumby (on the left):
What do you think? Is this just another Chinese rip-off? Or is the difference siginifigant enough to make it an original?
I hadn't heard anything about this amazing discovery until now, but apparently it happened back in the early 90s. When 2000 year-old mummies were found in Western China, they were found to have some astonishing characteristics:
But more amazing than the discovery itself was the astonishing fact that the mummies were blond haired and long nosed. In 1993, Victor Mayer a college professor collected DNA from the mummies and his tests verified that the bodies were all of European genetic stock. Ancient Chinese texts from as early as the first millennium BC do mention groups of far-east dwelling caucasian people referred to as the Bai, Yeuzhi, and Tocharians. None, though, fully reveal how or why these people ended up there. Source
This is pretty fascinating. I can't think of any other early examples of Western people showing up in China. Is there anyone out there more versed in Chinese history than myself that know of any others?
If you liked our post a while back about the giant rat caught in China, you're going to especially enjoy this post. In Sichuan province someone has caught a 1.1 meter long giant salamander. It weighs in at a whopping 13.5 kilograms!
Check out the photos. Isn't he cute!
Does anyone else see the irony in this?
Since its April 13 opening, more than 500 visitors, usually in tour groups, have visited [the Jiangsu National Security Education Museum] each day — all of them citizens of the People’s Republic. Although people who look like Westerners are turned away immediately at the door, those who look “clean” and have Chinese features are usually allowed to enter without further checks, Qian said. Source
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