It started with a subway brawl in Hong Kong. Despite signs and announcements prohibiting the consumption of food on the subway, a Chinese mainlander was enjoying a bowl of instant…
See the debate: 海归女 PK名主持 Twenty-four-year-old Liu Lili recently appeared on a Chinese job-hunting TV show. She was halfway through saying, “I was in New Zealand for three years. After those…
There have been a handful of times in my life in which immediate death seemed all but confirmed. The worst instance was my last plane flight home – the nine-hour…
Also read this post on Asia Society Northern California’s blog. The Western media wake trailing the Wenzhou train crash (7.23.11) has ranged from speculative and well-founded to insensitive and under-evidenced and…
I am a Chinese graduate school student, but Chinese is not my native language. So what would take me ten minutes to read in English will take about an hour…
I really dislike laowai blogs. Laowai is a Chinese term that means “foreigner” – a term not just used by Chinese, but by any self-respecting foreigner who lives in the PRC (People’s Republic of…
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