The Week April 8, 2011

The animated resume

Chinese netizens this week were calling it "the year's coolest resume". Peng Shuai of Fujian province, a recent college graduate, used animation to make his resume different. Construction begins this month at a new Walt Disney theme park in Shanghai. Disney loves animation. Can a cartoon resume lead to a cartoon job?

Let them eat cake

What's hot on the Internet this week? Ugly cakes. People are posting pictures of the cakes they hate to look at. What do you do with an ugly cake? You could flush it. You could drive other people crazy, like these Spaniards did. Or, you could just shut your eyes and eat it.

Shaolin Mandarin

Remember that great movie, Shaolin Soccer? AFP reports that life is now imitating art in Beijing. Monks at the city's famed Shaolin Temple are teaching young students to play soccer. But what about foreigners in Beijing who complain that it's too hard to learn Chinese? Can a Shaolin soccer monk help them? The Week investigates …

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Renee Haines is an editor and broadcaster at China Daily. Renee has more than 15 years of experience as a newspaper editor, radio station anchor and news director, news-wire service reporter and bureau chief, magazine writer, book editor and website consultant.