Chengdu Living

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It’s a hard life out in the countryside, but someone has to do it. For the next few weeks I’ll share with you the community living outside of Chengdu in Flower Town, a harmonious mixture of farmer, worker, artist and dreamer.

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Tomorrow night Disco Death in Chengdu will host a member of China’s performing elite: DJ Blaise. I took the opportunity to write a few words about the event and why I’m excited about this one in particular.

For the first time ever, two Chinese “singers” have been fined for lip synching after a Chengdu concert, but what does it mean?

Science Fiction World’s editors staged a successful coup and ousted editor-in-chief Li Chang, whom they accused of incompetence and corruption. Li was suspended today by the Sichuan Association for Science and Technology.

Last summer in Chengdu tens of thousands of music fans came from near and far to attend the Zebra Music Festival (ZMF, or 热拨音乐节) in Chengdu. This year, they’re continuing the tradition. The five most common questions about Zebra answered inside. We have the full lineup, too.

After months of conjecture over what the outcome of Google’s fateful blog post calling out China would be, Google.cn is out of operation. To be exact, all of Google’s China search services (Google Search, Google News, and Google Images) are being redirected to Google.com.hk where uncensored results are being offered to surfers in Mainland China. For the time being.

The origin of this clip is mysterious, but it depicts a Chinese girl wearing a nightgown and scaring the hell out of people as they enter the door next to her. It only takes one look at her silent gaze before bystanders freak out, one by one.

Sometimes the hustle and bustle of the city can get overwhelming. Fortunately you can get away from it all by basking in the lush and peaceful surroundings of “Flower Town” just 30 minutes outside of Chengdu.