A “human flesh search” (人肉搜索 rén ròu sōu suǒ) is when netizens gather online through BBS forums, social networks, chat room, or instant messaging to collaborate on a common task, such as finding information about a person. From NetEase: Shanghai Nanhu Vocational School vio

From Sina: That child whose fate was changed by a photograph From the internet, I read an article and saw many black and white photographs, and could not help but think of that Project Hope big-eyed little girl [pictured above]. Su Mingjuan was the Project Hope big-eyed little girl, and though t

From NetEase: “Child prodigy”? Wuhan 12-year-old auto repair master becomes driving “expert” October 14th, someone unexpectedly found a 12-year-old automobile mechanic in Wuhan. Don’t be fooled by his young age, this is already his second year in the business. He̵

From Youku: Some university in Nanjing’s shocking “Elevator Gate”. Crazy, do they not know that there is a security camera in the elevator? This video is currently spreading on the popular Chinese social network Kaixin001. A copy on YouTube (faster for outside of China): If yo

From Sina: The internet’s latest celebrity: Documentary portraits of the “Tanghulu Xi Shi” “Tanghulu Xi Shi” ["Sugarcoated Haws Beauty" or "Candied Fruit Beauty"] has become famous at the Jiaotong University campus. She was the subject that everyone had to discuss ev

Recently, posts showing pictures of an invitation card for a private club at Wenzhou University became very popular. There are posts on Mop and Tianya. Below are translations of what is written on the card: KLSI Private Club – Gentlefolk Center of the University Match one condition below, a

A Chinese cargo ship (”德新海 De Xin Hai”) with twenty-five Chinese seamen was seized by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean about 700 miles east of the Somali coastline. Headlines in Chinese news websites except Xinhuanet are all about this incident (Sina, NetEase, Mop, Huanqiu, Sohu, T

From nongchangren.cn: Forgetting to steal crops on QQ Happy Farms cause lovers to break up and couples to divorce Recently, the first thing Chinese netizens do upon turning on their computers each day is “grow crops” and “steal crops”. This is a game called “Happy Far

From Sina: Beauty contest or selection of train attendants? Posted below are several pictures of the selection of attendants for high-speed trains, and the criteria for selecting attendants for high-speed trains is: 20-years old and younger, 1.65m and taller, 50kg and lighter, dignified appearan

China’s national ambition to build a blue water navy inevitably led to the need for naval air power. For years there have been rumors of a Chinese aircraft carrier. Several purchases involving foreign ships only resulted in the creation of military theme parks (or scrapped altogether). When

An American music video called “Wrong Hole” with DJ Lubel, Taryn Southern, and Scott Baio has reached China and many Chinese netizens are sharing it with each other. A version with Chinese subtitles can be found at ACfun.cn. The music video was also uploaded to Chinese video sharing we

Here is the “Loving You” sung by 张靓颖 (Zhang Liangyin) that many Chinese netizens are familiar with: Comments from Mop: aloneinn: This kid is constipated. Me_Naruto: Why is grabbing his JB to sing? f16jydai: Damn! The sound of a mouse’s son… 匿名人士845040: My

Slop oil is “refined” from slop or swill, which is the leftover “food” that people and restaurants throw away. Usually, slop or swill is fed to pigs but some unscrupulous people will gather the slop and “recycle” the oil in the slop to sell as cooking oil. Of course, this cooking o

From Mop: I have contracted AIDS, publicizing my customers’ mobile phone numbers This is my medical file/record [pregnancy]: My name is 闫德利 [Yan Deli], and I live at #6 Yonghong Rd., Jiaguang Village, Jiaguang Town, Rongcheng County, Hebei Province. My national ID number is 13243519

Recently, a British drug smuggler’s death sentence was upheld by the Supreme People’s Court in China. News on Xinhuanet.com: Death penalty on British drug dealer in line with Chinese law: spokesman BEIJING, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) — Chinese court’s sentence of death penalty on a B

From Mop: Girl’s most stunning mobile phone conversation overheard on metro, so feisty! Morning, on board Metro Line 10, quite crowded, rush hour, but not unbearably jammed. A girl with long straight hair stood next to me. [She had] a bob with bangs that were slightly slanted. [She was] dres

From Mop: Both overwhelming and shocking, on a beach under the big blue sky, flowery butt man wearing thong plays in the water On the last day of the long holiday, I took my baby to the beach. Not longer after we were there, my baby pulled me over and said, “Mommy, look, there is an uncle o

The Russian Federation’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is currently visiting Beijing and signing contracts with Chinese companies. Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov told Reuters last Friday that the two countries will make deals worth $5.5 billion in thirty-eight areas, including the f

Few in China knew the private company Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery (STHIM) until it released a deal to buy Hummer from American General Motors in June. STHIM became the center of the spotlight since then in China. Some background knowledge about Hummer: the civilian off-road vehicl

Yesterday, United States President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. This news surprised many people around the world. Here is President Obama’s speech responding to the news, on YouTube: Below are some Chinese netizen reactions to the news from NetEase: 网易广东广州天河