I will never understand China

[GeneChing]

I've been studying Chinese culture for decades. It's part and parcel of my job now, has been for years. I been to China many times. I have Chinese blood in my veins.

Then I see some **** like this and I'm like WTF?

[David Jamieson]

ok...then...uh...nothing more to say..

[TaichiMantis]

I've been studying Chinese culture for decades. It's part and parcel of my job now, has been for years. I been to China many times. I have Chinese blood in my veins.

Then I see some **** like this and I'm like WTF?

Bizarre Chinese Old-folks Choir Covers Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance"

Thanks for that gem, going straight to facebook with it. Also, someone commented:

That's not Mandarin, its Changsha local accent, the pronunciation Gaga means old grandma in Changsha dialect.

[Syn7]

thats rough....

i always liked that prison cover of the thriller dance tho... that was phillipino tho, wasnt it???

[hskwarrior]

DAAMN that sucked.......the miniskirt vid.......from behind she looked good.....turned sideways her booty faded into nothingness.........what a shame

[bawang]

Some said it was a result of foreign blood across from China from the West I think from the Silk Road invasions.

sound like you cannot accept strong and beautiful chinese people.

[David Jamieson]

I think that the reason they chose "gaga" was because in their particular dialect, "gaga" is similar to grandma. True story.

[GeneChing]

...but also befitting of this thread

Guangzhou sex festival proves a family day out

Staff Reporter
2011-11-16
08:37 (GMT+8)


Two models pose in sexy lingerie at the 9th Sex Festival in Guangzhou, southern China. (Photo/CNS)

A three-day sex culture festival took place in Guangzhou in China's southern province of Guangdong last weekend, attracting hundreds of visitors including middle-aged couples, young lovers and, surprisingly, many elementary school students who came with their parents, the Chinese-language New Express Daily reports.

The annual event opened on Nov. 12, offering a variety of performances and exhibitions including body painting, lingerie catwalk shows and pole dancing.

In contrast to previous years, the visitors comprised not only middle-aged or older men but also newlyweds, middle-aged couples, young lovers and college students. Some open-minded parents even saw it fit to bring their children of elementary school age to the show. A guard at the entrance exclaimed to a reporter, "Dozens of children have come through the gates today, all about ten years old!"

A mother surnamed Zhu who brought her 10-year-old son told the newspaper, "It's for education. Sex education begins at an earlier ages in foreign countries."

Unsuprised by the development, sexpert Zhu Jiaming said, "Some elementary schools in Guangzhou have begun sex education and the authorities are looking to increase awareness."

An event organizer said that the increased variety of visitors to the show is proof that the local level of sex education has been raised.

[GeneChing]

Great photos, yes?

Chinese sex fair shows how prudishness and liberation sit side-by-side

Decades after Mao Zedong, couples are happy to browse sex toys together – but not all attitudes have changed
Tania Branigan in Guangzhou
guardian.co.uk, Monday 8 October 2012 10.14 EDT


Chinese shoppers at the sex culture festival in Guangzhou. Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian

"One-two-THREE! CONTROL! … and relax," Ma Jian urges. The 78-year-old author is addressing a few dozen men clustered around a stage in Guangzhou, but he aspires to a much bigger audience. "China has more than 2,000 years of sexual history and culture and skills. It has sexual experience which western countries have never known. I want to introduce its expertise to people here and people overseas and make all men happy," he said.

"I want all women to benefit. I take guys who shoot in three minutes and teach them to hang on for 30. That's long enough."

Until 10 years ago this evangelist was, he said, "an underground worker", toiling in strictest secrecy. He grew up in the sexually repressive society created by Mao Zedong. The chairman of the People's Republic may have shared his own bed with numerous women, but under his rule bodies were disguised in shapeless suits and holding hands in public was shocking.

Even in the 80s, after liberalisation had begun, a man was executed for organising orgies. Now Ma rattles off his advice – swimming increases sexual desire; pee in short bursts, not a stream – at a convention co-hosted by family planning authorities.

More than 30,000 visitors thronged last weekend to the 10th national (Guangzhou) sex culture festival to watch pole dancers, buy 007-brand condoms and browse porn in a resolutely unerotic exhibition centre. Couples take happy snaps with giant virility figures, and unabashed shoppers fondle realistic sex dolls (though not, this year, inflatable Obamas). The wealthiest can even choose a 100,000 yuan (£10,000) solid gold "pleasure object" – the kind of high-class product that appeals to shoppers usually found in Louis Vuitton or Dolce & Gabbana, a sales assistant said.


Chinese sex fair catwalk Men photograph semi-clad models on a catwalk at the fair. Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian

But the shots of "artistic nudes" are tame by western standards. And though hordes of men photograph furiously as semi-clad models strut to a disco version of the Old Spice theme, there's no pouting or lip-licking. These days, sexual experimentation and puritanism sit side by side in China.

Qiu Shuang, a lesbian activist and sex toy saleswoman, argued that repression had only kindled passions. "Maybe we seem very conservative, but we have the biggest desires," she said.

China has an estimated six million sex workers, yet nudity is unacceptable in the cinema and there are periodic anti-porn crackdowns. Women have hymen restoration surgery so their husbands will believe they are virgins. Two years ago, an academic was jailed for hosting sex parties. It is no coincidence that the official denunciation of the disgraced politician Bo Xilai accused him of improper sexual relationships with several women.

"People still frown on serial dating … [but] there are 200,000 sex shops and these huge sexual expos. Are they prudish about sex or are they incredibly liberated?" asked Richard Burger, whose new book, Behind the Red Door, chronicles the history of sex in China.

He argues that for centuries China's leaders have swung between sexual openness and repression. In the Tang dynasty, prostitutes were registered; the late Ming saw explicit novels such as The Plum in the Golden Vase.

At times, ****sexual love has been celebrated. At other times, erotic books have been burned.

In the west, the sexual revolution was part of a wider movement of personal liberation and challenges to authority. But in China, the post-Mao shift from procreation to recreation was driven not by the Beatles and Lady Chatterley but by the Communist party.

Sex dolls on show in Guangzhou. Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian

"After the Cultural Revolution, the government's control [of people's lives] started loosening, and at the same time the one-child policy meant people could have sex lives that weren't for the purpose of giving birth. They could have sex for pleasure," said Pan Suiming of Renmin University, one of the country's leading experts on sex.

Li Yinhe, another researcher, said: "In the past, women were not allowed to like sex – sex was only for giving birth to children, or serving men. Now they can enjoy sex."

When the magazine Popular Cinema dared to print a romantic clinch in 1979, it sparked a national controversy. The publication of the kiss – a still from a Cinderella movie starring Richard Chamberlain – was "decadent, capitalist, an act meant to poison our youths", complained an irate local propaganda official. But thousands more picked up their pens to support the magazine.

But puckering up lost its subversive edge – even if the average age for a first kiss remained at 23 just a few years ago. These days premarital sex is very common and has spread to rural areas too.

Yet even now, most assume that sexual relationships end in marriage. Half the men Pan surveyed in 2007 reported only one sexual partner – and even younger and more experienced men have double standards, as a group of female students at the festival testify.

"There's a long way to go. People do think a woman is a **** [if she has had multiple partners]," said Emily Mai.

"We have a right to chose premarital sex," added her friend Yee Bai. "It's freedom. We can't stand to have only 'pure, spiritual' love."

Sun Zhongxin of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh says the sexual revolution has benefited different sexes and sexualities to different degrees, and that both men and women may face new pressures, feeling inadequate when faced with a single and sometimes more westernised standard of sexiness.

Tens of millions of men will not find wives or long-term partners at all, because of China's "missing" women: illegal sex-selective abortions have caused the gender ratio at birth to rise from the natural rate of 106 boys per 100 girls to 118 boys.

Many more men are migrant workers who may see their spouses once a year at best. "They can use sexual toys to let their desire out. It's better than going to have sex with prostitutes," said the event's deputy director, Zhu Jianming.

But as Sun pointed out, the sex industry is not just the fruit of changing attitudes; it has been aggressive in pushing "liberalisation".
A local law enforcement official touches a statue at the fair. Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian

The results can be alarming. One stall in Guangzhou is advertising a sex doll designed to look like a very young girl.

Zhu dismissed concerns: "It doesn't encourage people … You can't criticise a sexual fantasy."

But he adds that he too worries that some people "have been influenced by western ideas about sex, are out of control and indulge themselves sexually". He insisted the show was designed to encourage sexual morality and positive relationships, not just sexual knowledge.

Though the festival clearly caters primarily to straight men, there are several older couples browsing arm in arm. A husband and wife stop to listen attentively as a salesman demonstrates the different groans emitted by a selection of fake vaginas.

"In the past, when two people dated, they even had to keep their distance on the street," said 25-year-old Li Bo, sheepishly clasping the sex toy he had just won in a prize draw. "Of course we wouldn't want to go back to the old times."

Additional research by Cecily Huang

[bawang]

this is nothing new. it always happens before a cycle is nearing its end.

[David Jamieson]

I see westerners are still viewed as evil sex monkeys....

lovely.

[Jimbo]

I'll bet officials who said things like 'decadent, capitalist, an act meant to poison your youths' was one of those who say that publicly, but in private was probably the biggest consumer of porn, like N. Korea's Kim Jong Il supposedly was.

In the West, the Victorian era, and even up through the 1950s, was very uptight and repressive sexually. It doesn't mean people were like that in private.

You cannot completely police human nature.

[GeneChing]

Oh man....China...

Beijing hotpot restaurant serves up Barbie doll wrapped in meat that you undress while you eat



A hotpot restaurant is drawing some heat online, thanks to its new menu item -- a Barbie doll wrapped up in strips of mutton.
Typically, a hotpot restaurant serves its customers with plates of meat that they cook at their leisure; however, one hotpot restaurant in Beijing provides diners with a beautiful female doll in a red gown.
Well, upon closer inspection, she's actually wrapped up in strips of mutton (芭比羊肉衣), Shanghai Daily reports. Therefore, if diners want to eat the mutton, they have to peel off each layer of meat, slowly undressing the Barbie, exposing her naked plastic to everyone.



While the restaurant owner must have thought that this was a brilliant idea to promote his hotpot shop, netizens on Weibo are a bit disgusted by the "sexist" display.
"Why can't we just eat meats without any kind of stupid tricks like this?" one asked.
"It's very disgusting. We don't even know whether the staff cleaned the doll or not," another commented.
"Let's just throw the doll into the hotpot! It's really time consuming to pull away all those strips of meat," one netizen joked.
Wait, where have we seen that meat dress before? Some netizens immediately thought of the recently possibly banned Lady Gaga, saying that the hotpot restaurant should stop trying to imitate Lady Gaga's style, because apparently it isn't working.



Apparently, this place didn't get the memo that China is trying to cut its meat consumpion in half.

By Katie Ngai
[Images via Weibo]

[GeneChing]

Chongqing man has been drinking half a bottle of liquid detergent every day for the past 4 years



Back in 2012, Zhang Yue took his first sip from a bottle of detergent. Since then, he's been hooked on the stuff.




The now 31-year-old man from Chongqing says that he can't get enough of the taste of dishwashing liquids and shampoos. For the last four years, he's been downing half a bottle of detergent a day.



Despite his shockingly fresh breath, Zhang says that his addiction has driven away any potential girlfriends, though it has at least made him a local celebrity of sorts.



Xinhua reports that Zhang says that he has visited a number of hospitals to discuss his addiction. Surprisingly, the doctors have told them that he is in fine physical shape (though they do not recommend drinking detergent for their other patients). They say he might have pika, an eating disorder where people develop an unhealthy craving for eating things with little or no nutritional value -- like light bulbs.




Apparently, detergent isn't the way to a Chinese lady's heart after all.

[Images via CCTV News]
Contact the author of this article or email tips@shanghaiist.com with further questions, comments or tips.
By Alex Linder in News on Aug 19, 2016 2:30 PM

I once helped treat a patient who drank Febreeze. She was doing shots in a camper before a concert and somehow grabbed the wrong thing. Her puke smelled fresh.

[GeneChing]

Ain't got nuthin on a Chinese facekini

画风太奇异!青岛脸基尼已更新至第六代(组图)
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8月28日，山东青岛第一海水浴场海边，身穿连体脸基尼的青岛大妈，泳衣上的龙、凤、孔雀图案十分惊艳，在 海边回头率极高。今年8月份，青岛海水浴场靓丽的风景脸基尼已经更新到了第六代。视觉中国


张式范被认为是青岛“脸基尼发明人”，她告诉记者，自己从2004年设计了第一款脸基尼，主要是为了防止下 海游泳的人受到海蜇的伤害，后来随着不断改观，已经能出到了第六代，背景图案和脸罩还以大熊猫、扬子鳄、西 伯利亚虎等世界十大濒危动物动作为主题，希望受到人们更多关注，去保护这些濒临灭绝的动物。


身穿新款连体脸基尼的青岛大妈。


以京剧脸谱和龙凤图案为主题的“脸基尼”。


以京剧脸谱和龙凤图案为主题的“脸基尼”。


以动物为造型主题的“脸基尼”。


动物主题“脸基尼”。


脸基尼的发明人张式范女士正在用尺子测量各式样脸基尼的尺寸，为了让游泳的人戴在头上更加舒适，她仔细量好 眼睛、鼻子、嘴巴等部门的大小尺寸，做出样品后找模特进行试戴。


张式范女士正在用尺子测量各式样脸基尼的尺寸。“脸基尼”曾受到国外内媒体的关注，还被法国的时尚杂志《C R Fashion Book》，以中国青岛海滩的”脸基尼“（Face-kini）大妈作为灵感，拍摄了一辑泳池时尚大片，再度将中国民间元素带入时尚圈


张式范与身穿新款“脸基尼”的大爷大妈海边合影。目前，青岛脸基尼已经出到了第六代，游客们只要来到青岛海 边都会想一睹脸基尼的风采。张式范表示，“自己还会继续设计下去，通过不断的改进，让脸基尼真正的走向国外 ，成为时尚圈的主流。

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Singular style too! Qingdao face Gini has been updated to the sixth generation (Photos)
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August 28, Qingdao First Beach beach, wearing a Siamese face Gini Qingdao aunt, dragon swimsuit on, phoenix, pea**** design is stunning, the sea very high retention rates. August this year, Qingdao beach beautiful landscape face Gini has been updated to the sixth generation. Vision China



Zhang style range is considered Qingdao "face Gini inventor," she told reporters that his 2004 design the first face Gini, mainly to prevent sea swim by jellyfish injuries, and later with the continuous change, has been able to out the sixth generation, background patterns and visor also the giant panda, Chinese alligator, the Siberian tiger, the world's top ten endangered animal movements as the theme, people want to be more attention to the protection of these endangered animals.



Wearing a new face piece Gini Qingdao aunt.



In Peking Opera and the theme of the dragon and phoenix patterns "Gini face."



In Peking Opera and the theme of the dragon and phoenix patterns "Gini face."



Animal in the shape of the theme of "Gini face."



Animal theme "Gini face."



Face Gini inventor Miss Zhang Shi Fan was measured with a ruler for each style face Gini size, in order to allow swimmers to wear the head more comfortable, she carefully amount of the eyes, nose, mouth and other departments of sizes, looking after making sample model try them.



Miss Zhang Shi Fan is measuring the size of each Gini style face with a ruler. "Face Gini" has been in the foreign media attention, also the French fashion magazine "CR Fashion Book", to Qingdao, China Beach "face Gini" (Face-kini) aunt as inspiration, took a series of fashion a large swimming pool, once again the Chinese folk elements into fashion ring



Zhang Fan style and wearing a new "face Gini" uncle aunt seaside photo. At present, Qingdao has been out to face the Gini sixth generation, as long as the visitors came to Qingdao beach will want to see the face Gini style. Zhang Fan type said, "will continue to design their own to go through continuous improvement, so that the real face Gini go abroad, into the mainstream fashion circles.