Wednesday, June 06, 2007

this tea and that tea

in light of the recent popularity of posting "street banner" pictures (see simon world, eswn), i'd like to share you another "street banner" picture below, it's about the recent crazy of investing in Pu'er tea in china. the prices of Pu'er tea, it's reported, increased 500-800% within a short peirod of several months


the street banner says, "it's better to deposit some Pu'er tea at home than to deposit money in banks"


nowadays, perhaps fewer people realize that tea could be something different from an investment tool. some photos of chinese "Zisha teapot" (via: paowang):


posted @ 10:57 AM

June 4th ad and China's generation-III

speculation (in chinese) about the reasons why the june 4th ad could pass through the newspaper editor/censor is that the editor/censor is too young to have any idea of the incident which happened 18 years ago.

there are people who want to deny it, there are people who want to remember it and there are people who don't know/care about it.

i can verify the gen-III with my experience of 《the unkonwn story of Mao》, while there are old guys who are angry about the book when you present it to them and there are some who desperately try to find a copy and read, young people are totally indifferent to the book.

posted @ 12:09 AM