Beijing’s “Big Underpants” illustrated

By Joel ~
| China web debris |

Beijingers’ irreverent attitude toward their city’s latest grandiose prestige project has now been illustrated by Chinese netizens.

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Have Chinese word you learn!

被

Pronounced: bèi
Meaning: [indicates passive clause -- examples]
Also means: 被 was chosen as the most popular online character for 2009. It became a satirical joke, often dark, expressing the way Mainlanders have things done to/for them without choice. One well-known example is the phrase "be suicided", which became popular when what was obviously was a murder was unconvincingly declared a suicide by authorities. This translation of a Xinhua article describes the many ways 被 applies to modern Mainland life and why this character expresses the frustrations of China's (online) citizens: Living in an Era of Change – Era of Acceptance

- 2010/03/14

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China's earliest Great Wall ruins found (photos)

China's earliest Great Wall ruins have been found in Henan province, dating to the Spring and Autumn Period (770 BC to 476 BC). See here and here for some photos.

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China's zombie growth

If you stop to take a second look, it's quite obvious that much of Tianjin's glittering new (and expensive) apartment and office complexes are empty. Yet the building continues. This is happening all over China:
"China continues to build despite an excess of empty commercial real estate.

"Last year, approximately one out of every four square feet of commercial office space in Beijing were empty – about 100 million square feet of zombie space. All over town are dark buildings…

"It looks like growth. But it is zombie growth. People build bridges to nowhere rather than working for profit-making enterprises. Concrete is used to put up cities where no one lives."

- 2010/03/11

The contents of the greatest tomb in archeological history

From What's Inside Qin Shi Huang's Tomb?

"Qin Shi Huang ... ruled the largest unified kingdom the Far East had ever witnessed to that date – the very basis of Imperial China. In military power, economic strength and technical innovation, the Qin ... were all powerful.
[...]
"Possessing a grossly swollen ego to match his achievements and status, Shi Huang ordered the construction of a staggeringly large and ornate tomb for himself outside the Qin capital of Xi’an, one that is said to have required hundreds of thousands of labourers to build.

"The tomb ... has not yet been explored – and perhaps may never be. If legend about what’s inside is true – and, incredibly, all evidence to date suggests it is – then the First Emperor’s mausoleum contains a wealth of treasures and adornments perhaps greater than any other in ancient history."

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