Steve Cotner
Website: The Foreign Expert
Email: theforeignexpert@gmail.com
Steve Cotner has taught English at the National University of Defense Technology in Changsha, Hunan Province and written for the Michigan Daily and the Detroit Metro Times. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in political science and a vague sense of foreboding. Now he edits The Foreign Expert.

UFO Filmed in Changsha

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

CHINESE TV | A UFO spotting in Changsha, capital of Hunan Province, is covered on TV news.

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Singles Day Roundup

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

VARIOUS SOURCES | Top 10 lists, poems, and bachelor rentals on singles day... Newton (1642 -1727) the great British scientist, throughout his life hardly any record of getting intimate with a woman. Voltaire (1694 -1778) modern French thinker, lover of a...

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Art school’s “Real Life Street Fighters!”

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

YOUKU.COM | Students at China Central Academy of Fine Arts put together a stop-action, human version of the old Street Fighter video game, complete with sound effects, power meters, and some amazing moving scenery.

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That night in Chicago: the view from China

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

VARIOUS SOURCES | No matter how loud the cheers, no matter how hard they applauded, it seems it cannot be expressed, the feeling aroused in the crowd gathered in America, Illinois state, Chicago, Grant Park, on Obama's election night....

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Cages, Rages, Raids and Reds

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Naked art in Beijing's 798 district. Manhunt in Beihai. Rounding up drunks. Bruce Lee's bathroom. China's aid to America. Red wine targets the peasants. 1,600 pandas. Mummy on the Metro. Drunk and out of tune.

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Sanlu and the new “Bunny Suicides”

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

Cartoonist Youshou's uniquely Chinese version of "The Bunny Suicides"

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Rabbit-girl-minister and friends

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

A rabbit-girl-minister for Nao Dong Fang. Oil suits. Number one dog. China's voice in the global media. America's aging nukes. 30 years of reform and opening up. Playboy's boss, broke and alone.

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Sleeping through politics.

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

"It is time to have some qualified teachers to teach politics class. We should let children participate more in politics, care more about politics, instead of telling them those boring and abstract concepts."

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Chou Nü Wudi, China’s Ugly Betty

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

A preview of the new Hunan TV series "Ugly Wudi," adapted from the American comedy "Ugly Betty." The show premiered on September 28.

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The Shenzhou 7 launch

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

CCTV1's video of Shenzhou 7's launch, and a quick glimpse inside mission control.

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