A few months ago in my spoken Chinese class, my teacher displayed this fascinating list of what was in and out in Chinese popular culture as part of her lesson about the internet and slang. Through the miracle of Baidu, I managed to track down the original list to the June 1st edtion of The Information Times . Since I’m on my summer holiday and not doing much (and certainly not updating this blog as much as I had hoped!), I decided to translate the list into English as a way to practice my ha