SUBSCRIBE to Next Media Animation: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=NMAWorldEdition Chinese foreigner bashing has gone into overdrive as Beijing is in the midst of a campaign to deport foreigners who live or work in China illegally.Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NMAtvWebpage: http://www.nma.tv/Twitter @nmatv: https://twitter.com/#!/nmatvTumblr: http://nmatv.tumblr.com/Fanning the flames is xenophobe and CCTV (Chinese state TV) mouthpiece Yang Rui who was educated in Wales and whose daughter goes to school in the US. The Engrish-speaking TV host has called foreigners who live in China "trash" and described Al Jazeera reporter Melissa Chan as a "foreign bitch." (Melissa Chan was expelled from China because of unflattering stories about China by other Al Jazeera reporters.)In a flight of fancy that could only come from the mind of a Chinese Communist, Yang Rui said foreigners pretend to date ... Continue reading →
Mike Coppola/Getty ImagesThe cast of the Broadway revival of “Death of a Salesman” in their opening night curtain call at the Barrymore Theater in March.Something rare and wonderful happened at the opening night of the Encores! concert production of “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” at City Center last week. At the end of the show, when the performers took their bows, the audience remained seated.Let me hasten to add there was no doubt that this audience had mightily enjoyed what had it just seen. We had all beat our hands raw with clapping through a succession of showstoppers, including a tap sequence that would have made you swear the ghosts of the Nicholas Brothers had possessed its performers; an athletic series of variations on the Charleston; and ... Continue reading →
Last week, Chinese state-run TV personality Yang Rui published a message through his verified account on the Twitter-like microblogging service Sina Weibo in which he appeared to throw his support behind a campaign by the Beijing Public Security Bureau to rid the city of foreigners who had either entered the city illegally or were living or working there without the proper visas. CCTV CCTV host Yang Rui seen in a screenshot of CCTV’s English-language website In the message, the subject of a CRT post published Friday, Mr. Yang advised authorities on where to go to arrest “foreign thugs,” suggested that “foreign spies” were in the habit of seeking out Chinese women to “mask their espionage” and used a phrase translated by a number of people ... Continue reading →
Melissa Chan, pictured, the recently expelled journalist for al-Jazeera television, was described as a 'foreign bitch' by Chinese TV presenter Yang Rui. Photograph: al-Jazeera/EPA A high-profile state television presenter who launched an online tirade against "foreign trash" has sought to temper his words after calls for overseas guests to boycott his show.In the diatribe by Yang Rui, published on the popular Sina Weibo service, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, he described a recently expelled journalist as a "foreign bitch" and praised police for "clearing out foreign trash".The attack by the host of the English language programme Dialogue, which says it seeks to promote cross-cultural debate, was initially viewed by some commentators as an attempt at satire. His programme is shown on CCTV-9, the channel regarded ... Continue reading →
Just days earlier, on Jan. 28, the police chief, Wang Lijun, had pressed Mr. Bo over evidence tying Mr. Bo’s wife to the death last fall of a British businessman, prompting Mr. Bo to punch Mr. Wang in the face, Mr. Wang later recounted to others. The three men — two of them powerful businessmen and the other a former intelligence agent — had befriended Mr. Bo and Mr. Wang years ago. They knew both to be controlling and impulsive, and their goal was to broker a peace. The most famous of the three, Xu Ming, 41, listed by Forbes as China’s eighth-richest person in 2005, had flown in on his private jet. He and the others held separate meetings with Mr. Bo and Mr. ... Continue reading →
“It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing—and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite — that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.” – Mark Twain The Oatmeal is a fantastic comic that I recommend that you make a habit of reading. However, even the greatest can go astray, and I’m pained to admit that The Oatmeal has done so regarding someone I regard ... Continue reading →
