For the readers who don’t know Li Ning
“Li Ning (Simplified Chinese: 李宁) is a famous Chinese gymnast and entrepreneur. He was born in a Zhuang family on September 8, 1963 in Liuzhou, Guangxi, China and gained his Bachelor of Law and EMBA degrees from Peking University.
Ning is most famous for winning 6 medals at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, including 3 gold medals (in floor exercise, pommel horse, and rings), 2 silver medals, and a bronze medal. In 1982, he won six of the seven medals awarded at the Sixth World Cup Gymnastic Competition, earning him the title “Prince of gymnastics”.
Ning retired from sporting competition in 1988, and in 1990 he founded the Li-Ning Company Limited, which sells footwear and sporting apparel in China. Ning remains chairman of the company’s board of directors.
Li was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2000. He became the first Chinese inductee of the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.
In Beijing 2008 Olympics Li Ning was named to be the person to ignite the cauldron at the opening ceremony.”
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Ning
Tags: 2008 Summer Olympics, li ning, Olympic opening ceremony
August 10th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
And he got the biggest free advertising in the history of the word.
Good old China! Take the millions in sponsorship money from Adidas then hand it all over to their main rival in China. That must be that communism I keep hearing about!
August 10th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Also, it’s extremely rude to refer to him as “Ning”. No one in China ever would. Use his full name!
August 10th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
Ah, I wondered if the Chinese gymnasts uniforms were actually personally designed by Li Ning himself or just his company. Thanks for the clarification!
August 11th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
@Liuzhou Laowai
Your criticisms should be taken up on Wikipedia, where you can register and change it yourself, as it is a Wiki. The post here is simply an excerpt from Wikipedia. It’s not “extremely rude” to refer to him as Ning. In fact, his friends probably call him “xiao ning” or something similar. It’s just not the common way to refer to him.
“extremely rude” — haha — go front your pompous ultra-intimate culturally super-sensitive defender of the weak words somewhere else. The blog owner is Chinese, if it was so extremely rude, surely he would have taken offense and chosen not to post that, huh?
August 11th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
I’ll double-take that: Also,
RE: “And he got the biggest free advertising in the history of the word”
If you think he rolled up on that muthaf*ckin wall for free, you obviously don’t know China as intimately as you think.
August 12th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Rick. Feel free to disagree with me. But, there is no need to be so offensive with it.
August 12th, 2008 at 11:43 am
@ Liuzhou Laowai
re: offensive
I feel personally empowered when I righteously stamp out the proud and wrong, sorry if you take offense, but hopefully it encouraged you to ask some locals for confirmation and reconsider your other strong/wrong beliefs, preventing further propagating misunderstandings of Chinese culture with misplaced pride and ardor.
August 12th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/72b312be-6777-11dd-8d3b-0000779fd18c,dwp_uuid=723ba534-41c2-11dc-8328-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1
August 13th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
@ Liuzhou Laowai
Rick is right, I skimmed your blog and it *does* read like you’re being very judgemental and sanctimonious. That being said:
@Rick
Didn’t you just back the raccoon into a corner? Don’t get me wrong, as a computer guy and a New Yorker I love your attitude
But it seems like your words had the opposite effect!
August 13th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
@Anil
RE: “back the raccoon into a corner”
Intentionally. There’s a reason I’m all scarred up!
August 13th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
@Laowai
RE: “cashed in”
I think his “deal” or whatever he struck, was worth it. I’m not saying he didn’t bank, but don’t think that it was free. I can imagine how many pussies were pummeled (maybe not a good adjective, I don’t imagine many gov’t officials are capable of real pummeling without the use of 3rd party toys) and benzes were bought in order to swing that one. Good on ‘em.
August 13th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
You “skimmed” a four year blog and found it judgemental. How judgemental is that?
August 13th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
@Eric Havaby
Maybe he ran some word counts on a few random negative words and discovered that, Alas, almost every post is targetted negatively towards the liuzhou governments complete and utter idiocy and foulups, their ungaaaawdly lack of taste and disturbing horrid lack of care for their citizens, oh, as well as some of the locals habits, which are ALL (yes, all, 100%, Eric, 100%.) horrible and disgusting. Disgusting.
That’s just a shot in the dark, though. Anil is a pretty judgemental offender, definitely a sh*t-disturber on the Mouthpiece known as chinalives. Lets meet in the park and gather a group for a lynching.
August 13th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
@Eric Havaby
You are 100% correct but my definition of skimming is different than yours. And you missed the point…
August 13th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
So, I’m 100% correct but wrong?
Explain please.
August 13th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
@ Rick
Thanks a lot mofo. I just spat vodka all over my keyboard after reading your “lynching” post…you owe me a new laptop!
August 13th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
@ Eric Havaby
If you don’t understand, then you’re out of your league. Go somewhere else kid, I’m tired of making the simple-minded cry.
August 14th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
@Eric
I’m a very patient and understanding gentleman, so I’ll try to explain what Anil refuses to (see what I’m saying!) You see, when someone uses liberal words of measurement such as “really big” or “skim” in this case, they are speaking from their perspective, which is often different than yours. Therefor, while your point of “skimming” being judgemental is 100% *correct* from your perspective, you can’t define what he meant by “skim”, which, to some, may mean reading through quickly and getting a general feeling about something…and to others, just reading headers. It’s not for you to determine what he meant, or how in-depth he read it, your liberal-measurement-word-understanding is different than his, not wrong or wrong, just different. (cough) To put this another way, when your Chinese girlfriend says “that’s really big”, it’s probably a combination of her both not only seeing a plethora of migrant worker chinese penises during her day job, but also trying to make you feel good - her idea of “very big” is probably much different than a straight-forward foreign girl would might laugh and leave. Click yet?
@Anil
Sorry, I’ll mail you a new laptop keyboard from the local pile of used laptop keyboards currently being smelted into Olympic figurines by grannies with lighters, which coincidently is beside the park I planned the lynching - Eric didn’t show up.
August 14th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
It’s Abbot and Costello!
August 14th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
@Eric
I’ll explain too since you didn’t get offended by my last remark. You were 100% correct that my statement was judgemental. But I did so to make a point. That point is: “Liuzhou Laowai can dish it but can s/he take it?”
Additionally, you completely mis-read my later post. You asked, “How judgemental is that?” and I replied, “You are 100% correct…” You see? I answered your question! Then you said,
“So, I’m 100% correct but wrong?” The confusion is on *your* side since I _did_ _not_
say that you were wrong! I said that you missed the point. “Wrong” and “missing the point” are two completely separate issues. Ya feel me?
August 14th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
@ Eric and Rick
Damn you both! I just bought the lynching chains at the store. Now you owe me $4.23 in gas money + a new keyboard + a lynching.
August 14th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Tom and Jerry
August 14th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
@Eric Havaby
How about you merge your posts into a list of all of the comedic pairs you can imagine, and increase the comedic value of your witty posts exponentially? I believe the equation is:
r = (cv*wp)ⁿ-s
where r = respect, cv = comedic value, wp = wittiness of the post, n = number of posts merged into one ultrapost, and s = sarcasm, which in this case is actually ∞.
August 14th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
I had just written a super cool post and I don’t think it let me post due to use of character map. Let me try again and see if this pushes through: ∞
August 14th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
nevermind. Originally it gave me a 404.
August 15th, 2008 at 3:18 am
@Eric Havaby
You’re scoring 0-3 with me. 0-4 will put you out of the game. Understand?
August 15th, 2008 at 3:34 am
@ Rick
yeah i was getting 404s too with just regular text.
Your equation is awesome! If my math isn’t faulty, that equaled to no respect!!! Totally awesome dude xD
August 15th, 2008 at 11:09 am
@Anil
A+!
August 16th, 2008 at 3:34 am
for my idea of a much better laowai attitude check out “Awkward. in china” ——->>>
September 16th, 2008 at 12:18 am
I agree, u can’t just call him ‘Ning’, coz its incomplete, its just part of his name, plus it’s not usual to call a person in that way, unless you are writing a love letter to somebody.
November 13th, 2008 at 5:01 am
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