Don’t Light Firecrackers While Banging That Spitting Prostitute

by R. Elgin on June 2, 2008

China has published a warning list of what foreigners should not do during the Olympics and — naturally — it’s in Chinese.

{ 11 comments… read them below or add one }

1 aaronm June 2, 2008 at 6:12 pm: What parts of China are still off-limits? I am assuming they are remote border areas such as Aksai Chin and others that are militarily sensitive such as the underground submarine base on Hainan. Can anyone provide a definitive list?
2 Robert Koehler June 2, 2008 at 6:32 pm: Another “don’t” on the Chinese list is “Please don’t pull down blog posts without asking Robert first.” Oh, wait…
3 Wedge June 2, 2008 at 6:47 pm: I hear there are still plenty of hotel room vacancies in Beijing in August. Maybe that debutante ball won’t be so well attended, what with new and improved visa hoops to jump through and “foreigners must register with the police upon arrival”-shite going on.
4 dda June 2, 2008 at 6:51 pm: I was Friday and Saturday in China — in Shenzhen — and the atmosphere at the pedestrian border of Lowu is way more tense that it used to be. They installed a metal detector, which I and many others circumvented, and everyone has to put their luggage through an X-Ray machine, a formality that was mostly ignored by border-hoppers like me. Passport control took much longer, as they seemed to memorize every single page of our passports, and we had to answer questions — something I never had to do so far, and I have 50+ border crossings behind my belt.

As for the “entertainment” part, though, it doesn’t seem to be affected yet
5 Railwaycharm June 2, 2008 at 7:58 pm: “entertainment” = Whore banging?
6 swlee June 2, 2008 at 10:05 pm: I’d comment on this fascinating thred except it will probably be pulled tomorrow so I won’t even bother. Ooops, too late.
7 Robert Koehler June 2, 2008 at 10:08 pm: Oh, come on — take advantage of the opportunity while it lasts.
8 dogbert June 2, 2008 at 10:47 pm: @1: I can’t give you an exact answer, but I used to fly regularly over China and each time noted that the flight took an oddly-shaped path that seemed to me designed to avoid certain areas of the country.
9 aaronm June 2, 2008 at 10:56 pm: @8, If you were going to the former CIS it may have been avoiding Lop Nor the nuclear testing site in the far west of the country.
10 dogbert June 2, 2008 at 11:21 pm: Indeed, I was usually flying to Tashkent, so that may have been it.
11 dokdoforever June 3, 2008 at 8:26 am: Robert – what’s the whole story on R Elgin’s pulled thread? Did Netizens complaints lead a Korean government agency to force you to remove it? What are the rules governing admissable speach on blogs in Korea?