Do you believe there are UFOs or aliens living among us? You're not alone! GoKunming interviews Zhang Yifang, founder and former director of the Kunming UFO Research Association and the organizer of the 2009 International Astronomy Year and Extraterrestrial Life Forum about extraterrestrial activity in China.

The dismal state of sex education in China is illustrated by this post on China Hush about the reaction of a small town to a 14-year-old girl who managed to keep her pregnancy secret until she gave birth to the baby in her dorm room.

The disaster movie 2012 has been under the spotlight for its perceived positive, neutral, and negative portrayals of China. But the comments translated by ChinaSMACK hint that people are getting a little bored of nitpicking over anything that might possibly be construed as negative about China's role in big foreign movies.

For all those pondering the potential of tennis in China after the low turnout for the ATP Champions Tour in Chengdu this month, China Sports Today has an interview touching on these matters with rising tennis star Zhang Shuai.

Naturally, much of the China blogosphere is buzzing about U.S. President Obama's three-day visit to China this week. Adam Minter of Shanghai Scrap was deeply unimpressed with the phrase "big supporter of non-censorship", while Sam Crane at the Useless Tree notes the negative coverage and rises to Obama's defense (Requires proxy). China Digital Times and China Beat do a good job of summarizing (requires proxy) media coverage, and the New York Times Room for Debate blog invites opinions from scholars on China about whether or not Obama was too soft in approaching China's leaders on the issue of human rights.

And in an amusing piece (yes, there is one this week!), Evan Osnos of the New Yorker writes about the experiences of the press corps that follow the president on trips abroad.

A hilarious video of popular Chengdu "cop-reality" TV program Tan's Traffic Talk Show with English subtitles by the Veggie Discourse blog. In it, teasing traffic policeman Tan lectures a hairdresser on hair styles and road safety. The blog also explains key cultural terms. Viewing the blog requires a proxy, but you can view the video on Tudou here.

Residents in Kunming protest the death of a tricycle driver at the hands of chengguan, the "city management" law enforcers. Translation and the usual comments railing against chengguan at ChinaSMACK.

After the black-Asian Oriental Angel Lou Jing controversy, China Sports Today clears up misinformation about African-Chinese volleyball player Ding Hui and underscores sport's potential as an avenue to greater tolerance toward mixed-heritage Chinese.

Peking University student Tom shares his and his classmates' thoughts on China's growing role as a "responsible stakeholder" in international affairs over at Six blog.

China Beat looks at how the writings of Lu Xun, hugely influential author, essayist, poet, editor and critic and textbook staple in Chinese schools, have been appropriated and over-simplified by the Communist Party.

Mao statues tend to feature the great helmsman hailing a taxi in a long overcoat, as at Tianfu Square, but it doesn't have to be so. Danwei reports on a new, youthful, long-locked Mao statue in Changsha, capital of his native Hunan province.

And have you ever wondered what a sex festival is like in China? Adam Minter from Shanghai Scrap stumbles upon one in Guangzhou and calls it a "seriously cold shower."

Fran likes surfing the China blogosphere, and every Sunday she shares her picks of the week with GoChengdoo readers.

Bought a new mobile recently? Over at Shanghai Scrap, Adam Minter links to his own Foreign Policy piece about South China's "digital dumps" and the volume of domestic e-waste that ends up there--which should encourage you to think twice about selling your dead electronics to the neighborhood scrap-hunter.

This Friday's fifty 5 introduces five of China's popular journalist bloggers: Good reading, especially if you can read Chinese and want to get sucked into the Chinese-language blog world.

Chinayouren tells an apparently true and rather entertaining story set in a Spanish airport about an averted plane crash, a Chinese mother-and-sun duo, and the mysterious ducks that tie everything together.

The China Media Project analyzes BBC's and AFP's lazy reporting, in which the two news giants publish articles based almost exclusively on information in a China Daily piece about media rules in Shenzhen.

China Hearsay offers a take on the political reasoning behind the U.S.'s decision to slap a tariff on tires imported from China.

Long reading from Fool's Mountain: A translation of a post recounting Deng Xiaoping interpreter and academic Zhang Weiwei's challenge to other scholars to name a country that democratized before modernizing, questioning the value of democracy before economic development.
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And finally, China Geeks excerpts a Times of India interview with "the only senior Buddhist leader recognized by Beijing, the Tibetans, and India," Karmapa Lama Trinley Dorje, 24, who talks about the emotional therapy of playing war video games.
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Fran likes surfing the China blogosphere, and every Sunday she shares her picks of the week with GoChengdoo readers.