Apr 11, 2024
Foreigners have a reputation for clumsiness in China. The litany of knocks, breaks and injuries accumulated by my expat friends is truly alarming. Excluding digestive disagreements, simply for brevity’s sake, here are some of the most common expat injuries in China. Read more>>
Feb 22, 2012 Comments(1)
Editor's note: Simply put, the same economic reforms that gradually transformed China from a stagnate planned economy into a global model of market capitalism during the last 30 years have also dramatically altered many of the foundations of Chinese society ...... 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 05, 2012 Comments(0)
Photo: flickr Expats, listen up. New Year's resolution time is upon us. After the gift giving splendor of Christmas and the post-party hangover of New Year's Eve wear off, we're all going to be left in the cold light of January 1st wondering, "What ...... Read More>>
Jan 04, 2012 Comments(3)
Editor’s note: The following article was translated and edited from a report that first appeared in the Sichuan Legal System Report. The report looks at the typical life and struggles of girls employed as barmaids in Chengdu. The report finds that ...... Read More>>
Dec 25, 2011 Comments(3)
Editor’s note: Who said reality TV can’t be "wholesome"? While many of us watching Chinese dating shows like "You Are the One" (非诚勿扰) assume that the contestants are all nothing but gold diggers and trophy-wife-seekers, a ...... Read More>>
Dec 07, 2011 Comments(8)
Editor's note: Originally published by the Southern Daily, this article recounts another instance of a "professional beggar" being exposed through social media websites; a popular trend in China today.There is a common perception that these ...... Read More>>
Nov 24, 2011 Comments(8)
Fashion can be a funny thing here in China. Some have it, some don’t. But the beautiful thing about it is that anything goes. Well, almost anything. China and many Western countries share a fashion gap of sorts. Wearing something that is perfectly ...... Read More>>
Nov 02, 2011 Comments(9)
Editor's Note: The following article was first published on yangse.com. It tells the accounts of a reporter tracking down the recent Weibo phenomenon known as the "pedicab foreigner". It is not the first time in recent months that Chinese netizens ...... Read More>>
Oct 26, 2011 Comments(2)
Editor’s Note: The following article, which originated in Wen Hui Bao, a Hong Kong newspaper, reports the recent discussions to come out of Shanghai, China’s fashion capital, on the state of the Chinese National Dress, or actually, considering ...... Read More>>
Oct 21, 2011 Comments(0)
The next best thing to eating Chinese food is reading about it, and we've searched the internet for the Middle Kingdom's most delicious food blogs. Whether serving up recipes, reviewing restaurants, scouring markets, or plastering food porn on their ...... Read More>>
Oct 06, 2011 Comments(2)
“MAKE YOUR SKIN WHITE AND PURE.” The poster has been slapped up in a bus stop. The rain-soaked paper, partially torn away, shows the faded face of a smiling Chinese woman. “QUICK AND SAFE ABORTIONS.” ... Read More>>
Oct 02, 2011 Comments(1)
Editors note: this is a translated and edited version of an article that appeared in the People’s Daily. The article criticises the subjectivity and shortsightedness of a recent report that claimed that Beijing had become more expensive to live in ...... Read More>>
Sep 21, 2011 Comments(4)
Editors note: This is a translated and edited version of an article from the Chinese gcpnews.com. It discusses the causes and effects that the increasing number of single women in China are having on society and traditional institutions. Photo: flickr.com ...... Read More>>
Sep 19, 2011 Comments(6)
Although the culture shock between China and that blob-like entity "the West" are not nearly as extreme as they might have been 20 or 30 years ago, certain Chinese customs still, to this day, continue to baffle foreigners when they first arrive ...... Read More>>
Sep 12, 2011 Comments(7)
Parents have never had an easy time broaching the topic of sex with their children. It is one of “those talks” that parents most dread, and often, they depend on the education system to raise their children for them (after all, what are taxes ...... Read More>>
Aug 17, 2011 Comments(0)
Editors note: This is a translated and edited version of an article that lists the “top ten” most stressful cities in China, and even though the original Chinese articles title doesn’t specifically mention it, these stress inducers are all ...... Read More>>
Aug 11, 2011 Comments(2)
"SEX" As soon as the word left my friend’s mouth his university classroom went deadly silent. The students which were laughing and carrying on just moments before now stared at their desks and nervously fidgeted with their pens. The silence ...... Read More>>
Aug 09, 2011 Comments(1)
A great deal has been said in the Chinese media about the '90s generation. They are disobedient. They are disrespectful. They are unpredictable. They are rebellious. Some suggest they are completely out of control. One thing is certain; they certainly don't ...... Read More>>
Aug 04, 2011 Comments(0)
"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new." (Thoreau, Walden, Penguin, 1983, p.68) Critical thinker David Edwards pointed out the inherent absurdity of fashion and the way in which we blindly follow it, and as ...... Read More>>
Jul 26, 2011 Comments(0)
There comes a point in every expat's life when you realize that you just might - quite possibly - most definitely - have gone native. There is no set time in which this happens. For some, eight months in China may be enough to figure out the vague ...... Read More>>
Jul 21, 2011 Comments(6)
The Post that Set it All Off When famous Chinese actress Lü Liping took to her Weibo last month to decry homosexuality as “a sin”, she stirred up an online debate that had countless public figures wading in to agree or disagree with her ...... Read More>>
Jul 09, 2011 Comments(1)
Is Apple Evil? It might seem a bit harsh but the question has been asked before. For years privacy advocates have accused Apple of misusing customer information and even tracking the movement of iPhone customers. There have also been legitimate concerns ...... Read More>>
Jun 17, 2011 Comments(6)
The Mandarin word for “naked” is the beautifully mellifluous “lu? t?” (裸体) which slides off the tongue and summons images of arty nudes (NSFW), and liberated naturalists frolicking on beaches. But being a nudist in China is far from...... Read More>>
Jun 11, 2011 Comments(2)
For people in the West, top retirement choices most often include Florida, the south coast of England, or Spain’s Costa del Sol. But as China rises as a superpower, will retirees from abroad flock to settle down here to see out their dotage? We look at the ...... Read More>>
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