China Segment

Go Willie. Anyone seen The Gambler or The Man in Black on a deck of cards in China?
During the few hours of Spring Festival not involved in eating, I taught some of my wife’s cousins how to play Texas Hold ‘em. As I was teaching and not looking to take anyone’s money yet, [...]

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And… our first videos here at China Segment. It’s about time we succumbed to the power of You Tube.
The whole Edison Chen sex picture scandal has revealed several things:
1. He was an idiot for: a) having a pink ibook; and b) taking it in to a shop for repairs with hundreds of pictures of [...]

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Olympic athletes in China have the support and cheers of 1.3 billion people behind them.
They also have the weight of 1.3 billion people on their shoulders, not to mention a government anxious for Olympic bragging rights.
There are a few sports stars from the last Olympics in Athens, notably 郭晶晶 (Guo Jingjing, diving), and 刘翔 (Liu [...]

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She’s hot, she’s cool.
One of the first things that really turned me on about China after I moved here was Faye Wong (Chinese, Wang Fei 王菲). She’s a singer and movie start that rose to prominence in the mid-late 1990s. Few Chinese stars truly pull off a ‘cool’ (in the Western sense) image.
Favorite [...]

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