
On the morning of the 15th, the burnt corpse of a man was discovered hanging upside down from a Guangdong power line.
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The above image compares the various incarnations of the ancient Chinese classic “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” (三国志 / Sangokushi in Japanese) characters in anime, manga and games.
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A 13-year-old girl scored and impressive, if unintentional, almost literal bullseye on her schoolmate, an 11-year-old boy, in a spot of recent archery practice. Miraculously, the boy survived the arrow burying itself deep into his brain and destroying his eye.
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A man who became besotted with the 13-year-old friend of his daughter resolved to have his way with her, but compounded his vicious crime by murdering her in order to stay her tongue, and then cutting off her face and feeding it to a dog.
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Pictured is Nanjing station, where boxes upon boxes of cats fill the station, and the air is ceaselessly pierced by their wailing. There are some 1,400 in this shipment alone, and three shipments are due the same day for a total of 5,000 cats.
The cats are going to China’s culinary capital (of sorts), Guangzhou, where an unparalleled variety of animals are eaten.
They are destined to become what is prosaically called “活猫水煮” / “Boiled alive cat”, a dish made by hitting the cat on the head to quieten it, and then throwing it in a pot of boiling water whilst it still lives:
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A man was lately greeted by a friendly looking sort whilst about town:
“Mate, I got an iPhone I nicked from the shop over there. They’re normally 4,000 yuan ($600) y’know, but I can let you have this un for 500 yuan ($70), ‘ow about that then?”
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A group of men who bought several girls for roughly ¥750,000 each, and then forcibly rented them out as prostitutes, has been arrested under anti-slavery legislation.
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A lady who was assaulted by a neighbor took revenge by burning him alive with petrol, almost killing herself in the process, being saved only by the quick wittedness of her husband and a convenient bucket of urine.
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A man who picked up a pair of kittens and reared them as pets for six months was shocked to discover his “cats” were actually leopards when they started killing and eating his sheep.
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A gallery of girls illustrated wearing the most charming of Chinese female attire, variously called the cheongsam, 旗袍 / qipao, or China dress (Chinese dress). In fact, in Japan it is almost exclusively referred to as the “China dress”, so that will serve well enough as a title.
You can view these images, and more, on the Channel.
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Even Chinese net users are having difficulty stomaching these photographs, which seem to take the unique Chinese approach to respecting intellectual property to new heights (or depths):
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In a slightly complicated piece of Macross inspired marketing; the show’s Nyan-Nyan maguro-man (tuna “manjuu”) are prepared by a comely qipao sporting lady cosplaying Ranka Lee, with packaging and similar inspired by the show, and with the added draw of a certain familiar look…
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