On chinaSMACK, another man-bites-dog story of foreign-looking people speaking Mandarin, in this case a white woman on a local news station. Those with a long memory might recall that the title of this post and wonder yet again at the impossibility of parody on the mainland.

Bruce Humes, on Paper Republic, translates a bit of what was apparently an unacceptable acceptance speech by Chinese novelist Murong Xuecun (慕容 雪村).

China Media Project translates an interesting piece of media analysis on “cross-regional reporting” (异地监督 yìdì jiāndū) that uses, as usual, the praiseworthy practice of not dubbing in print — i.e. plenty of reference to the original Chinese text.

A mystery of Garlic vs Cauldron at Duncan‘s Naxi Script Resource Centre.

A little late, but rishida.net has an interesting post up about rendering bopomofo, an alternative to pinyin previously used in China and more recently on Taiwan..