{"id":550,"date":"2005-09-27T22:57:13","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T02:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/09\/27\/why-we-need-to-watch-the-chinese-but-n"},"modified":"2005-09-27T22:57:13","modified_gmt":"2005-09-28T02:57:13","slug":"why-we-need-to-watch-the-chinese-but-not-too-closely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/09\/27\/why-we-need-to-watch-the-chinese-but-not-too-closely\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Need to Watch the Chinese, But Not Too Closely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a7125'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td height=\"286\">\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong><font size=\"+1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/teethpull71.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"293\" align=\"left\">Woman, 71, pulls car with teeth<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\n        A 71-year-old woman has pulled a car for 65ft &#8211; with her teeth &#8211; in<br \/>\n            China.<\/p>\n<p>Wang Xiaobei performed the stunt with a car weighing more than a tonne<br \/>\n        in Jinan, Shandong province, where she lives.<\/p>\n<p>She attached one end of a heavy rope to the car and wrapped a handkerchief<br \/>\n        around the other end before biting on the rope. Mrs Wang said she had<br \/>\n        been practising feats of strength with her teeth for more than 30 years.<br \/>\n        She has previously managed to carry a 25 kilo bucket of water with her<br \/>\n        mouth,<br \/>\n        and also a bicycle.<\/p>\n<p>      from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_1551435.html?menu=\">Ananova<br \/>\n      <\/a>      <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><font size=\"+1\"><strong>Wasp catcher eats his prey<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\n        A Chinese man wasp catcher has become famous for eating the insects he<br \/>\n            has caught. Zhong Zhisheng from Shaoguan City, has removed over 100<br \/>\n          wasps&#8217; nests in the last year, reports Xinhua qouting Shenzen Daily.<\/p>\n<p>        The 30-year-old removes wasp nests within five minutes, using only a<br \/>\n        plastic bag, a bamboo stick and smoke to choke the insects out..<\/p>\n<p>        Mr Zhong said: &quot;To me, removing a wasps&#8217; nest is like picking a<br \/>\n        pumpkin and catching wasps is like catching flies.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/cocowasp.jpg\" width=\"91\" height=\"116\" align=\"right\">Mr Zhong, who learned to deal with wasps from his grandpa when he was<br \/>\n        just 11, does not charge money for removing wasp nests but asks only<br \/>\n        to be allowed<br \/>\n        to take the insects home.<\/p>\n<p>        He says he enjoys eating fried wasps and drinking alcohol containing<br \/>\n        wasps and pupae.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_1551325.html?menu=\">Ananova<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woman, 71, pulls car with teeth A 71-year-old woman has pulled a car for 65ft &#8211; with her teeth &#8211; in China. Wang Xiaobei performed the stunt with a car weighing more than a tonne in Jinan, Shandong province, where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/09\/27\/why-we-need-to-watch-the-chinese-but-not-too-closely\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}