Feb 23, 2022 Comments(4)
If you’ve worked in China, you’ve probably heard the term “white monkey job.” I took it a step further and took on a “dancing white monkey” job. Here’s how I got on as a foreign performer in China. Read more>>
Jan 31, 2012 Comments(1)
In modern society professional sports are big business and as such, the pressure on athletes to be victorious is greater than ever. This desire to defeat all rivals at any cost can sometimes lead professional sportsmen and women to bend or break the rules ...... Read More>>
Jan 25, 2012 Comments(1)
On January 13th, a video clip from "Only You" (非你莫属), the popular job-seeking programme on Tianjin TV, became a hot topic across the Chinese social media websites. In the clip, aptly titled "Overseas Female Student Fights With Host" ...... Read More>>
Jan 24, 2012 Comments(0)
Before arriving in China in 2005, I repeatedly came across a statement which was commonly bandied about on the internet, that being: ‘China is a third world country with first world technology’. China’s status as a developed, developing or third world ...... Read More>>
Jan 19, 2012 Comments(1)
Foreigners have quite the reputation for clumsiness in China. In fact, this is such a universally acknowledged truth that it is even part of the daily commute. Snippets from home video accident shows in the West are shown regularly between news bulletins on ...... Read More>>
Jan 18, 2012 Comments(3)
Somewhere along the line, Guangdong Province became China's beauty pageant mecca. In the beginning, there was only the Guangzhou-based "Beauty in Flower City" (美在花城), but in the wake of its immense popularity, many more pageants soon followed, ...... Read More>>
Jan 08, 2012 Comments(7)
Yuan Li was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province on July 12th, 1973. She graduated from Beijing Film Academy in 1992. She has made a name for herself appearing in such films as Never Die Content (永不瞑目), and The Bronze Teeth (铁齿铜牙纪晓岚). In recent ...... Read More>>
Jan 06, 2012 Comments(2)
Breathing in clean air sounds like a very basic right, but unfortunately it is not something we can take for granted living in China’s smoggy metropolises. With China’s air pollution frequently surpassing international standards and even partially shooting...... Read More>>
Jan 01, 2012 Comments(1)
According to a recent article on sina.com.cn, different coloured foods have surprisingly different effects on your body's health. Apparently, it's best to eat less red, orange and bright yellow foods; while white, green and black foods should be eaten more ...... Read More>>
Dec 19, 2011 Comments(1)
Most Westerners probably think of the martial arts as violent, physically demanding forms of exercise which require many years of commitment in order to attain any kind of proficiency. With all of the heightened images of kung fu presented in Western ...... Read More>>
Dec 12, 2011 Comments(11)
China’s nationwide smoking ban, which prohibited lighting up in any public space anywhere in the country, was put into effect in January 2010. Similar bans had been effectively enacted in major cities across the Unites States, and throughout most Western ...... Read More>>
Dec 11, 2011 Comments(2)
Hangzhou, Chongqing, Xi'an, Nanchang – many taxis in these cities have already installed monitoring systems, much to the chagrin of the public. Now, taxis in Nanjing, who have been "secretly" installing the same kind of monitoring systems in ...... Read More>>
Dec 06, 2011 Comments(4)
If there has been one defining trend in modern media over the past 10-15 years, it would have to be reality TV. No television phenomenon has been so simultaneously reviled and embraced by a population as reality television has in America and Europe, ...... Read More>>
Dec 04, 2011 Comments(2)
Whether a bottle is ordered for the dinner table, given as a gift or consumed at a nightclub, wine is no longer the "luxury item" that it was once considered a few decades ago. Many Chinese are now championing wine as "the healthy ...... Read More>>
Nov 30, 2011 Comments(0)
Inside a coffee shop, ten young girls, from several of Beijing's top universities, sit and wait, while clients (mostly middle-aged couples), carefully look over each of them. The clients are very picky – even single eyelids on a girl is a deal breaker. One ...... Read More>>
Nov 28, 2011 Comments(0)
While it is well known that the genesis of many inventions (such as paper, gunpowder, printing and the compass) was ancient China, what is perhaps less well known is that China is responsible for several scientific breakthroughs and discoveries that ...... Read More>>
Nov 27, 2011 Comments(1)
The "2010 China's Best Hospitals list", the top 80 hospitals in China voted on and selected by 2,009 medical experts across China was officially released on November 19th. The list was compiled by the Institute Hospital Management at Fudan ...... Read More>>
Nov 21, 2011 Comments(1)
Living abroad in any different culture is a balancing act, China being no exception. Expats living in the People’s Republic face a daily tightrope-walk between antipathy and assimilation: some people refuse to leave the expat bubble at all, frequenting ...... Read More>>
Nov 07, 2011 Comments(6)
When people think of food scandals in China, most people think of the 2008 melamine milk incident, in which six infants died and over 300,000 people fell sick, some with serious kidney complications. Sadly, that was by no means the first time China was host ...... Read More>>
Nov 05, 2011 Comments(1)
Around the world, the number of children diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, is increasing rapidly. In China there are estimated to be at least five million autistic children. Whether this increase is due to increased awareness of autism – ...... Read More>>
Nov 03, 2011 Comments(1)
So you want to be a star? Think you'll have better luck achieving that dream in China? Well, in terms of getting your face on TV or in a movie, it's more than feasible. Case in point: this National Day holiday my friends and I went to Hebei for an episode ...... Read More>>
Nov 01, 2011 Comments(0)
Any traveler to Europe would be at a great loss if they had never heard of Michelangelo's David or Da Vinci's Mona Lisa. Of course, China too has its own masterpieces, works of art that form a crucial part of the nation's culture and are instantly ...... Read More>>
Oct 27, 2011 Comments(3)
Every expat in China has a place to go for them: maybe a grease-stained man behind the local jiaozi stand, perhaps from a plastic crate strapped to a street-corner motorbike, possibly even so melodramatic as to be from behind a secret mirrored door ...... Read More>>
Oct 22, 2011 Comments(0)
The canon of Chinese literature is so huge and intimidating that it's hard to know where to start. And thanks to the difficulty of the Chinese language, only the most serious scholars can read the classics in their original form. Luckily there are some ...... Read More>>
Oct 12, 2011 Comments(0)
After news broke that a woman, Ms. Yao, was scammed when she used Baidu to search and buy plane tickets, a reporter from CCTV decided to investigate claims that Baidu search results’ "promotional links" were a hotbed for scam sites. What the ...... Read More>>
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