To celebrate the upcoming anniversary of the Beijinger magazine, we're taking a look back at the 11 most-read posts in the history of TheBeijinger.com. We're going to countdown from 11 to one, with a blog every day until the big event on October 18. Without further ado ... let's step back in time to May 23, 2008.

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Note: The information contained below was accurate at the time that it was originally published.

"China Visa – Facts and Fiction" by Nadine Ulrich

To celebrate the upcoming anniversary of the Beijinger magazine, we're taking a look back at the 11 most-read posts in the history of TheBeijinger.com. We're going to countdown from 11 to one, with a blog every day until the big event on October 18. Without further ado ... let's step back in time to August 11, 2008.

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Note: The information contained below was accurate at the time that it was originally published.

"Bring It On: Meet the woman behind one of China's cheerleading squads" by Cecily Huang and Simon Lim

"Jiayou Zhongguo! Jiayou Aouyonghui!" so goes the official Beijing Olympic chant. Testament to the One World, One Dream mantra of this year's Games, it's a Korean who has been charged with teaching these words (plus a few nifty dance moves) to some of China's top cheerleaders. Cho Soojin is her name, and this August her girls will be performing at two of the Games' biggest events.

Cho established herself as go-to girl for cheerleading in China after her squad of dancers turned heads at the 2002 World Cup. The use of Chinese elements in their dance and costume attracted a lot of positive attention, and since then her studio, Soojin Dance, was designated the official cheerleader-training center for the CBA from 2002-2004.

the Beijinger met this hot Korean cheerleader captain to talk about her unusual career.

the Beijinger: You started your career as a gymnast, how did you get into coaching cheerleading in China?

I originally brought RMB 40,000 with me to come to Beijing Language Culture University to learn Chinese. I planned to spend only half a year in China, but I really liked Chinese culture. I am an extrovert, but in South Korea women are not allowed to [behave like] this … I feel more comfortable in China. I soon noticed that there were no cheerleaders in China, so I decided to organize my own cheerleading squad. In the beginning I taught classes in the park for free.

Now that the potholes and washed-out roads from July's storm are getting filled authorities are working on preventing another series of flash flooding we saw a month ago. Some other things that have caught our attention recently include puffing on canned air, a Chinese How I Met Your Mother/Friends/lots of other American sitcoms, another few hits to calm out Olympic addiction and a smartphone launch to watch - and it's not Apple.

We've got an odd mix of recent news. There's an upsetting story of a dog dumped from 18 stories, real and fake pregnancies, and for heaven's sake, why can't people pronounce "Beijing" correctly? Meanwhile, keep an eye out for less-vulgar luxury and watch your back on the subway.

William Vanbergen is an Old Etonian. He claims to have sat next to Prince William in Latin. It’s for this kind of reason that Britain’s Daily Mail and The Telegraph have focused on Vanbergen’s China-based education business, BE Education. Oh, and because they claim that he teaches Chinese children Britishness – something that they decry the absence of among Britain’s youth. What the devil is Vanbergen up to over here? We wanted to get to the bottom of it and why anyone would abandon Beijing for Shanghai. He was kind enough to indulge us.