Beijing Days 8 And 9:

Beijing Days 8 and 9:

1. Walked down the street chugging a 600 mL bottle of 燕京.

2. Witnessed firsthand the long-term effects of female infanticide on mosh pit demographics. Also took my first shot of absinthe.

3. Jogged in circles in Olympic Park.

4. Took a day trip to a mental hospital to film the treatment of committed patients. Got censored so hard.

5. Watched Archer season three.

6. Made dumplings.

Quail in rose petal sauce. Today we ate this dish, and Gertrudis ran away.

Like Water for Chocolate (1992)

This page was ironically censored by the PRC just as I tried to access it while disconnected from my school's VPN. Take a look. It's horrific.

The world's most censored country?

It’s not Iran, says the Committee to Protect Journalists. And it’s not North Korea. The world’s 10 most censored countries.

Couples get to hold each other. We get to hold our equipment.

Alice Li, on getting crammed like a human sardine into a compartment full of strangers on the Beijing subway during rush hour with our cameras and tripod.

Then, in that last moment, her thoughts raced through time, and the film studio from forty years ago appeared before her. That's it: it was in the film studio. There, in that three-walled room on the set, a woman lay draped across a bed during her final moments; above her a light swung back and forth, projecting wavelike shadows onto the walls. Only now did she finally realize that she was the woman on that bed--she was the one who had been murdered.

The Song of Everlasting Sorrow by Wang Anyi

One of her editors, every Thursday night, would drink an entire bottle of whiskey instead of editing articles.

-Newsroom Talk