Absurdity, Allegory and China

The China Daily ran a story this morning (h/t @kinablog) entitled “The meat athletes eat can get them branded as cheats“. An official from the General Administration of Sport of China (GASC) denied reports that athletes were banned in January from eating untested pork, beef and lamb in an attempt to avoid doping scandals in [...]

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There is a good piece by John Leicester in the Seattle Times concerning the former Chinese gymnast, Dong Fangxiao, who won a bronze medal at the Sydney 2000 Olympics: China leaves underage gymnast in the cold. Ms Dong is now at the center of a records falsification storm, abandoned by the officials who most likely [...]

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If you follow this blog you know I am not a fan of Jacques Rogge, the current president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). He is seen by many – this blogger included – as a CCP lapdog and a free agent who, under the charade of officialdom, always goes to the highest bidder. In [...]

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It’s difficult to get through an entire spring and summer without writing something about baseball, even if it won’t ever get much of a grip here in China. Despite the MLB’s recent series of promo events in Shanghai, Wuxi, Guangdong, Chengdu, and now, as I write, in Beijing. I think baseball has about as much [...]

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Access to the NYT started to waver last night here in Tianjin. On, off, on again. This morning on, but for at least the last several hours off again. So do we blame it on Jim Yardley’s After 30 Years, Economic Perils on China’s Path, and his coverage of the 30 year “reform and opening” [...]

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