My favourite was when I took my students to Chengdu and everywhere there were signs next to high ledges or narrow stairs reading: “nice to live” or even “please do not stay” next to what I thought were beauty points.

January 14, 2005 @ 11:27 pm | Comment

Why did you post all these laughing matters, Richard, was is out of your fear of the potential of great China?

Someone believes you do. See below:

# 1/15/2005 5:19 AM by BL

See all of them ACB, bellevue, Richard, all say they love China, then keep on bashing China every way they can. I really have not come across this type before. The ones have lived in China, but learned to hate China. I think because they see the potential of China, and one day their superiority will be toppled. They feel threatened.

http://blog.bcchinese.net/bingfeng/archive/2005/01/07/7041.aspx#FeedBack

Disclaimer: I can’t speak for others, but I have never said that I love China, whatsoever.

January 15, 2005 @ 6:11 am | Comment

To all Peking duck readers,

This is getting so ridiculous!!! Can anyone else read Chinese in here besides Bingfeng and BL?

Bellevue is continuing playing his game of playing as an innocent victim in here, while slandering Bingfeng and calling Chinese people names in BingFengTeaHouse. http://blog.bcchinese.net/bingfeng/archive/2005/01/07/7041.aspx#FeedBack

Bellevue had called Bingfeng, a “SH*T-EATING COMMIE” , he called his wife a “PROSTITUTE” and cursed “Bingfeng and his whole family to be eradicated”~MEANING MURDERED.

Bellevue called the Canadian BCChinese net provider a “SH*T-EATING DOG”

Bellevue called Chinese in Canada and America, “a bunch of ‘LOW QUAILTY DOG’ WHO CAN’T STOP EATING SH*T.”

Now BELLEVUE is calling Chinese “SH*T-EATING DOGS”, but concludes that it is maybe more appropriate to call them “CHINK.”

January 15, 2005 @ 7:54 am | Comment

bellevue,

I don’t believe Richard is a China-hater, but you definitely are.

January 15, 2005 @ 8:00 am | Comment

BTW bellevue, do you still claim youself as Chinese or Chinese-American???

January 15, 2005 @ 8:03 am | Comment

This has gone a little off-topic, don’t you think? Anyway, posting stuff like this is in no way China-bashing. Danwei often points out signs and other advertising materials in China that have similar gnarled English — because it’s funny! This is no criticism of the Chinese people, but it does indicate that whoever’s putting up these signs would benefit by having them proofed by someone who really knows English.

January 15, 2005 @ 8:59 am | Comment

And JR, I’d appreciate it if you not bring obscene comments onto this site — I realize someone else wrote them, but they don’t belong here. If someone writes things like that on another blog, that’s their business. If they write crap like that on this blog I’ll delete it.

January 15, 2005 @ 9:02 am | Comment

That someone else is bellevue , what do you say to him?

January 15, 2005 @ 9:07 am | Comment

And Bellevue is bringing part of the comments from the other blog into this site without quoting his own offensive comments in the other blog. To be fair, I am just quoting what he said to others in Chinese and translate them into English.

January 15, 2005 @ 9:15 am | Comment

I’m now asking both of you to stop it. Grow up, please.

January 15, 2005 @ 9:32 am | Comment

Richard,

From what I read here in the last two years, I think you are great, but please don’t associate yourself with bellevue, especially he said such hurtful and offensive things to Bing feng and others.

January 15, 2005 @ 9:37 am | Comment

JR, I’m not associating myself with anyone. Seriously, I appreciate that you and Bingfeng and others come here and leave comments. I just want to keep this blog from becoming a circus where people constantly call each other names. It gets really boring and silly. So let’s try to make the dialogue more intelligent and less belligerent.

January 15, 2005 @ 9:42 am | Comment

Getting back to the topic at hand:

if you want to see hilariously bad written Chinese by English-speakers, just visit Hanzi Smatter. The anti-Engrish.com, as it were.

January 15, 2005 @ 10:09 am | Comment

JR,

thank you very much.

no need to get angry with that liar. he can’t hurt me by dumping shits like that.

just ignore him and back to the topics.

not fair to ask richard to do anything towards that liar.

don’t worry richard, i will stay here to “co-exist” with bellevue in your blog.

btw, bellevue’s “little green book” is updated almost daily in my blog. welcome to take a look.

January 15, 2005 @ 5:26 pm | Comment

Interesting. After I taught them so many lessons in Chinese, they still stick on their own fabrication.

Same thing happened on other BBS. They reflected a pattern: that no Chinese is allowed to support Taiwan independence. I broke their myth of unity, and all they can do is to deny the fact that I am a Chinese born in China.

In fact what I support is Taiwan self-determination. I would highly suggest them not associate themselves with a regime using tanks and machine guns to slaughter its own people, much less to subject themselves to this tyranny. But after all, it’s their business. If they decide otherwise, I wish them well.

Any such comment would be deleted even in Chinese BBS outside China. Thank Richard that it at lest survives here. In the rank and files kowtowing to Beijing butchers, I wish I won’t see Peking Duck. Another myth among Chinese is Dems all support Beijing. Nothing can be farther from truth.

January 15, 2005 @ 7:24 pm | Comment

Oh, the last one had me choke on my beer. Very interesting interpretation.^_^

Go buy one of those “weird taste beans” at the oriental store and read the intro on the back. U’d die laffing if u understand both English and Chinese….

January 15, 2005 @ 7:28 pm | Comment

bellevue,

Thank you Bing, I am not angry at all, I am just throwing facts to the third time of Bellevue’s cycle of lies and deceptions.

“Same thing happened on other BBS.”

Yes, you are THE same internet troll acting as a Taiwanese and calling mainlander “chink” in other China forums”. I recognized you.

They reflected a pattern: that no Chinese is allowed to support Taiwan independence. I broke their myth of unity, and all they can do is to deny the fact that >>”

This myth is only in your mind bellevue, most libs in America are against the CCP for its appalling human rights record. President Clinton was one example. The fact that you hate the Chinese people is another matter. Don’t try to mix up people who hate the CCP to people who hate the Chinese people. You and ACB are the only two in that latter category. You hate Chinese so much, you even hate the Chinese in Canada and America.

January 15, 2005 @ 9:42 pm | Comment

I am not an ultra- nationalist or a CCP defender. I definitely don’t want a civil war among the Chinese people. I am not even from Mainland China. I read the first edition of famous Taiwanese writer Bo Yang’s “Ugly Chinaman.” (It may be a ban book in mainland China.) Some thought he was a China-hater, but the fact is opposite, he is actually a Chinese patriot. The book is like teaching from a stern, demanding but loving father to a young misbehaving son. It shows how much he loves China and the Chinese people.

January 15, 2005 @ 10:26 pm | Comment

According to you, “WE” (Japanese) can at least correct our history textbooks in Japan, but “THEY” (the Chinese) can’t do anything in mainland China.

I have never said that. And I’m yet to find any Japanese that would degrade himself by pretending to be a Chinese.

Keep your hatred towards Japan for yourself and blame them for every and each your failure. That’s definitely not my business.

January 15, 2005 @ 10:46 pm | Comment

I’m yet to find any Japanese that would degrade himself by pretending to be a Chinese.

So you are a Mainland Chinese, but it is also degrading to be Chinese, huh???

January 15, 2005 @ 11:21 pm | Comment

Face it: I’m a Chinese born in China proper, educated by Communists, once a Young Pioneer, and now I support Taiwan’s rights of being independent.

So what?

January 16, 2005 @ 12:04 am | Comment

That’s not my point, bellevue. You are very skilled at changing the subject and sliding by. How do you defend calling Chinese chink? Do you consider youself one of these chinks in China or America?

January 16, 2005 @ 12:11 am | Comment

jeez, guys, this is a thread about FUNNY SIGNS!

January 16, 2005 @ 12:12 am | Comment

Yes, JR. I can’t change it. Unfortunately.

The C-word is only a bad one when you showed everything you deserve it: being filthy, being mean, and being unhonest. CCP defenders are showing that they are just that on every account.

January 16, 2005 @ 12:16 am | Comment

When you can enjoy those funny signs and laugh out loud, you are not a C-word.

Enjoy!

January 16, 2005 @ 12:18 am | Comment

The C-word is only a bad one when you showed everything you deserve it: being filthy, being mean, and being unhonest. CCP defenders are showing that they are just that on every account.

How about the Chinese in America and Canada. When you called them chink , you had also offended Chinese from Hong Kong, Taiwan and other diaspora in America and Canada.

January 16, 2005 @ 12:40 am | Comment

One more funny sign:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajax/3381329/

At least they told you the truth.

January 16, 2005 @ 1:37 am | Comment

i realize i don’t contribute much, if really anything to this site however, i’ve had enough of this cry baby he said you said. why don’t guys buy a plane ticket and meet somewhere and settle it and get off of this site. it is no longer enjoyable, nor educational, at least for me.

January 16, 2005 @ 4:15 am | Comment

haikou homie,

i agree with you, except one point.

the one that bellevue meet should not be JR, bellevue should meet with the famous mr. soog in china. i think both of them will be very happy to meet with each other.

January 16, 2005 @ 5:28 am | Comment

RE: bellevue

“Face it: I’m a Chinese born in China proper, educated by Communists, once a Young Pioneer, and now I support Taiwan’s rights of being independent.

So what?“

“And I’m yet to find any Japanese that would degrade himself by pretending to be a Chinese.“

This gentleman’s comments are simply…say…fascinating….to be the least.

Some things are just puzzling though.

Let’s not argue for the time being whether it is a downgrade or upgrade from being a Chinese to a Japanese, or vise versa. But why on earth would someone pretend to be from a country he or she is not from? Pretend. that’s strange wording, isn’t it?

This is like saying, “No one should steal from people who are asleep.” Kind of makes you wonder what this speaker does for a living.

Leaving all other issues aside, I do think the CCP government is a complete failure when it comes to education. Now I really start to miss 孔子. Where is the 忠义孝节he worked so hard to get across people minds?

January 16, 2005 @ 8:03 am | Comment

But why on earth would someone pretend to be from a country he or she is not from?

Very simple, to cause controversy and to divide people.

January 16, 2005 @ 8:37 am | Comment

“Leaving all other issues aside, I do think the CCP government is a complete failure when it comes to education. Now I really start to miss . Where is the ÖÒÒåТ½Úhe worked so hard to get across people minds?”

And your point is?
The CCP government was/is never a big fan of ¿××Ó. They called it feudalism.

ÖÒÒåТ½Ú, Now I like that. A LOT. Where are they??

January 16, 2005 @ 8:43 am | Comment

I hear there are private Kongzi oriented schools in larger PRC cities these days….

But can we get back to the funny signs please?

?????hey, I didn’t know you could type characters in Haloscan! cool…

January 16, 2005 @ 12:11 pm | Comment

oops….I can type them, but they don’t post. Oh well.

January 16, 2005 @ 12:12 pm | Comment

From now on, any posts about whether someone is or isn’t Chinese will be deleted. It’s getting ridiculous.

January 16, 2005 @ 12:19 pm | Comment

guaiyi@yahoo.com:

Yes, CCP’s education was a double failure. They failed on 2 accounts: they failed to nurture people with those good virtures in Communism – people cheat, discriminate each other, all against communist credos – and they also failed to make people loyal to CCP other than conscience – I consider myself a rebel and some others do, too.

After we left school CCP began to change course. This process is still going on. Marxist economics is no longer required. Confusiusm plus nationalism centent is now emphasized.

January 17, 2005 @ 3:01 am | Comment

To bring the comments back on-topic, here are some photos of signs (and other things) I’ve taken while I’ve been in China:

Xiamen photo album (start here)

January 18, 2005 @ 7:16 pm | Comment

Very nice! 🙂

January 18, 2005 @ 7:22 pm | Comment