Funeral Strippers

[The Knockout Gun Gals]

Doesn't sound traditional from the article, more like a recent gimmick

It really sounds like a Western cultural gimmick.

[The Knockout Gun Gals]

Sweet. I don’t want television shows that feature dragons.

Hey! Avatar was a great show!

Game of Thrones has dragons.

[USS Monitor]

I don't blame anyone that lives in Henan Province for needing something to cheer them up, especially when someone they know just died. When I lived in China and I was visiting a different city every weekend to give my lungs a break from the pollution in Shijiazhuang -- Henan was by far the poorest, dumpiest, most depressing province I ever visited.

I've been told that Anhui is worse, but I don't know how that's possible.

Hebei... I can imagine them having strippers at funerals there. I have a soft spot for it cos I used to live there, but that place is screwy, and strippers at a funeral would not really stand out as being any weirder than the rest of it.

I'm surprised to see Jiangsu on the same list with the others, though.

[Olthar]

Hey! Avatar was a great show!

I don’t want it so you can’t have it.

In this case.

Dammit. How can I argue with such flawless logic?

And how does "dammit" autocorrect to "family?" O.o

[The Knockout Gun Gals]

I don’t want it so you can’t have it.

In this case.

Dammit. How can I argue with such flawless logic?

And how does "dammit" autocorrect to "family?" O.o

Well, there A, M, and I.

[The Parkus Empire]

I don't blame anyone that lives in Henan Province for needing something to cheer them up, especially when someone they know just died. When I lived in China and I was visiting a different city every weekend to give my lungs a break from the pollution in Shijiazhuang -- Henan was by far the poorest, dumpiest, most depressing province I ever visited.

I've been told that Anhui is worse, but I don't know how that's possible.

Hebei... I can imagine them having strippers at funerals there. I have a soft spot for it cos I used to live there, but that place is screwy, and strippers at a funeral would not really stand out as being any weirder than the rest of it.

I'm surprised to see Jiangsu on the same list with the others, though.

What brought you there?

[Olthar]

Hey! Avatar was a great show!

Game of Thrones has dragons.

I believe I have heard a rumor to that effect, but we may never know for sure.

[Infected Mushroom]

In this case, yes.

Sweet. I don’t want television shows that feature dragons.

Too bad

[New haven america]

Sweet. I don’t want television shows that feature dragons.

Too bad

I'm with Gallo on this.

[USS Monitor]

I don't blame anyone that lives in Henan Province for needing something to cheer them up, especially when someone they know just died. When I lived in China and I was visiting a different city every weekend to give my lungs a break from the pollution in Shijiazhuang -- Henan was by far the poorest, dumpiest, most depressing province I ever visited.

I've been told that Anhui is worse, but I don't know how that's possible.

Hebei... I can imagine them having strippers at funerals there. I have a soft spot for it cos I used to live there, but that place is screwy, and strippers at a funeral would not really stand out as being any weirder than the rest of it.

I'm surprised to see Jiangsu on the same list with the others, though.

What brought you there?

I was teaching English as a 2nd language.

I'm assuming there are also large quantities of baijiu at these funerals...

[The Parkus Empire]

What brought you there?

I was teaching English as a 2nd language.

I'm assuming there are also large quantities of baijiu at these funerals...

Did you drink it?

[New Luckyland]

I don't blame anyone that lives in Henan Province for needing something to cheer them up, especially when someone they know just died. When I lived in China and I was visiting a different city every weekend to give my lungs a break from the pollution in Shijiazhuang -- Henan was by far the poorest, dumpiest, most depressing province I ever visited.

I've been told that Anhui is worse, but I don't know how that's possible.

Hebei... I can imagine them having strippers at funerals there. I have a soft spot for it cos I used to live there, but that place is screwy, and strippers at a funeral would not really stand out as being any weirder than the rest of it.

I'm surprised to see Jiangsu on the same list with the others, though.

What brought you there?

I know right. An informed opinion!? What the actual metaphorical?

[USS Monitor]

I was teaching English as a 2nd language.

I'm assuming there are also large quantities of baijiu at these funerals...

Did you drink it?

I've tried baijiu, but not specifically at a funeral. I didn't go to any funerals while I was in China.

I've actually tried really high-end baijiu because I got invited to a dinner with some local officials... It's strongly alcoholic, so you can really taste the alcohol and feel the kick from it.

[Cedoria]

Well there goes my plan
Both for employment and my funeral

I'd rather strippers than hymns at mine to be honest.

[New Luckyland]

What brought you there?

I know right. An informed opinion!? What the actual metaphorical?

Oh "there" not "here". mybad

[USS Monitor]

I know right. An informed opinion!? What the actual metaphorical?

Oh "there" not "here". mybad

If you want to know what brought me HERE... The bad air drove me out of Shijiazhuang, and this where I ended up.

[Vespertania]

Strippers at funerals? Really?

What are they being paid to do, give the deceased a parting opportunity to motorboat some plastic ta-tas?

[Cetacea]

granddad loved strippers

and I soooo want strippers at my funeral too

its a great tradition and China should embrace its new traditions as well as the old

[The Knockout Gun Gals]

Did you drink it?

I've tried baijiu, but not specifically at a funeral. I didn't go to any funerals while I was in China.

I've actually tried really high-end baijiu because I got invited to a dinner with some local officials... It's strongly alcoholic, so you can really taste the alcohol and feel the kick from it.

Ooh, local officials. What did you do to get invited by one?

[Cetacea]

In China? Yes, forty years is a fad.

but you told me needing to be multigenerational was the key to what is a tradition. Were you mistaken?

the standard accepted criteria is more than 3 generations (if your grandparents did it with their parents and have passed it on to you then its a tradition)

[The Parkus Empire]

Did you drink it?

I've tried baijiu, but not specifically at a funeral. I didn't go to any funerals while I was in China.

I've actually tried really high-end baijiu because I got invited to a dinner with some local officials... It's strongly alcoholic, so you can really taste the alcohol and feel the kick from it.

Did you like it?

[USS Monitor]

I've tried baijiu, but not specifically at a funeral. I didn't go to any funerals while I was in China.

I've actually tried really high-end baijiu because I got invited to a dinner with some local officials... It's strongly alcoholic, so you can really taste the alcohol and feel the kick from it.

Ooh, local officials. What did you do to get invited by one?

Be a foreigner in a city that foreigners barely ever go to, and work at a public school.

[USS Monitor]

I've tried baijiu, but not specifically at a funeral. I didn't go to any funerals while I was in China.

I've actually tried really high-end baijiu because I got invited to a dinner with some local officials... It's strongly alcoholic, so you can really taste the alcohol and feel the kick from it.

Did you like it?

It's OK. I'm not a big drinker, though, and was even less of a drinker back then, so it was stronger than I wanted.

[Prosorusiya]

If I understand the article correctly, I actually believe what the professor quoted was saying is that “fertility rituals” are common at Chinese funerals, growing out of the rural religions that unofficially exist in China. In some ways such rituals make sense, many believe death to be linked to birth/rebirth so celebrating fertility is in someways appropriate. Anyhow, I think the professors point was that as cultural fusion occurs the older traditional rites of fertility are being replaced with Western-style strip tease. Which, from an ironically more Westernized viewpoint, seems like the height of bad taste.

In reality, the government probably is more concerned about appearances to the outside world of such customs than how traditional or non traditional they are, since rural China in general is something of an embarrassment to them even without strip-funerals.

Or to paraphrase Bender: “Yeah, well I’m going to off myself, and have my own funeral! With blackjack! And hookers! In fact, forget offing myself...”

[The Knockout Gun Gals]

Ooh, local officials. What did you do to get invited by one?

Be a foreigner in a city that foreigners barely ever go to, and work at a public school.

State-endorsed foreigner. Such is fun, right?