“We shouldn’t just focus on the scores of the Chinese athletes at the Olympics. This way, we can all enjoy it more.” Illustration by Wu Shangwen
Bai Yansong, a popular anchor on State broadcaster CCTV, giving tips on how to appreciate this summer’s London Olympics.
“We can be slutty, but you can’t touch us.” Two feminist protestors demonstrating against the Shanghai subway authority’s advice that women cover up to avoid sexual harassment. “Most charity organizations in China are owned by the government. We have to beg them to accept our donations – I don’t trust any of them.”
“Chinese education is better than that of the US, because those who don’t perform well in Chinese schools can become outstanding in American schools. It proves that the Chinese education system, though high-pressure, is effective.” Yang Zhenning, a Chinese-American scientist who received the 1957 Nobel prize in physics, in an interview with Guangming Daily.
Huang Nubo, chairman of Zhongkun Group, a large Chinese investment company, explaining why he decided to donate half his fortune to Peking University rather than to charity.
“It’s all over buses and billboards on main roads. You see it everywhere. Are the men in Dongguan really that weak?”
“My only fear is that you no longer believe that real rules are stronger than unwritten rules, that academia is separate from officialdom, and that righteousness is more powerful than flattery.”
“Being an economist is just a job. Don’t make a big deal of it, or bestow it with too much social function.”
Lu Xinning, head of the commentary department at the People’s Daily, delivering a commencement speech at Peking University.
“Mainland food exports to Hong Kong have reached almost 100 percent safety, a rate that few other countries have accomplished. If this standard could be applied to domestic sales on the mainland, it would help the food security problem there.”
Liang Jufeng, a CPPCC member of Dongguan, Guangdong Province, complaining that his city is full of ads for impotence clinics.
Well-known economist Xu Xiaonian on his microblog.
“Fortunately, at least we’re allowed to measure temperature and humidity, and use home pregnancy tests.” Li Chengpeng, a popular critic, mocking China’s draft legislation to ban any company or individual from publicizing air quality data, a move widely believed to target the American Embassy’s hourly pollution data feed.
York Chow, director of the Hong Kong Food and Health Bureau, in an interview with the Guangzhou Daily. NEWSCHINA I September 2012
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