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China: Bad Fuwa!

Saturday, June 21st, 2008 @ 13:38 UTC

by John Kennedy

Countries:: China
Topics:: Arts & Culture, Photography
Languages:: English
Special:: Olympics

This post is from our coverage of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing China, curated by John Kennedy and sponsored by Reuters. · All posts

From Flickr user Matthew J. Stinson: “My favorite graffiti here depicts one of the Fuwa as a graffiti artist. It was added about a month ago.”

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Kudzu Fire

curse of the Fuwa. Revenge of the Fuwa!

# 2008-06-22 at 16:55 pm

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Knights

JK is son of a bitch

# 2008-06-22 at 20:36 pm

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chan

Oh…Little FUWAS need a lot of love and caring by others. They have their feelings too. :-)

# 2008-06-23 at 0:38 am

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Feudal superstition

telegraph.co.uk
“…the five official Olympic mascots, which are known as Fuwa, or “good luck dolls”, in Chinese, have now acquired a far more sinister reputation”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/2168554/Beijing-Olympic-Fuwa-mascots-%27have-cursed%27-China-in-unlucky-2008.html?service=print

# 2008-06-23 at 5:49 am

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Feudal superstition

telegraph.co.uk
“…the five official Olympic mascots, which are known as Fuwa, or “good luck dolls”, in Chinese, have now acquired a far more sinister reputation”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/2168554/Beijing-Olympic-Fuwa-mascots-%27have-cursed%27-China-in-unlucky-2008.html?service=print

# 2008-06-23 at 5:52 am

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Feudal superstition

“Olympic mascots, which are known as Fuwa, or “good luck dolls”, in Chinese, have now acquired a far more sinister reputation.”

http://telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/2168554/Beijing-Olympic-Fuwa-mascots-%27have-cursed%27-China-in-unlucky-2008.html?service=print

# 2008-06-23 at 6:58 am

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eldamo

so weird but true

# 2008-08-26 at 5:09 am

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