Stir Fried China

Just finished watching CCTV.com’s coverage of China’s 60th Anniversary Parade in Beijing on Chang’An Jie in Beijing. I was tweeting along with a number of other people in China (including @imagethief @granitestudio @davesgonechina @goldkorn @beijingboyce @kaiserkuo @christinelu @chjis and a certain Eric A.) – let’s say in not the most sombre of ways (i.e. lots of it was hilarious). Everything from the pink skirt wearing “fembot” female soldiers to the prepensity for rainbows to how much hairspray must have been used, to yes, tanks and such was…discussed. Continue reading “China’s 60th Anniversary Parade Twitter Coverage Goes Ballistic”

CCTV just announced that it will live broadcast Thursday’s parade in Beijing in six languages, as well as live stream all of the pop and circumstance starting at 8am Beijing time on CCTV.com. My experience with CCTV.com has generally been a good one, with often high quality streams (I’ve listed the HD stream below as well – so stand by your monitor, wave a little red flag and you’ll feel like you’re right there!), so if you’re not planning on catching the parade on TV, the stream should be reliable enough. Although the English streams/URLs are listed on the CCTV site I’ve linked to above, I’ve added them below just in case that page disappears before Thursday.

Live Coverage of the PRC’s 60th Anniversary Parade

Live HD Coverage of the PRC’s 60th Anniversary Parade