I’m slowly developing a phobia for mid-afternoon taxi drivers. I’m not sure if they’re all absolute twats, or if its just me. Can’t possibly be me. I hope not anyhow… Taking a cab between 3:30 and 4pm is easily the biggest pain in my relocated ass right now. My current schedule requires me to commute …Read More
When I read about the bus explosions in Kunming on this past Monday I was a little surprised that the local police weren’t calling it terrorism. I don’t believe that it was done by anyone with a political agenda. This was probably done, as the police are saying, by someone with a local grievance. But isn’t …Read More
There are a few things that no matter how long I’m in China will always bring a pleasant smile to my face – the elderly practicing taiqi, dancing or just walking backwards in parks is one of them. The above photo is by Shanghai-based photographer Stephane Ferrero.Read More
I have to say that I was really surprised when I opened up a Sara Bongiorni’s A Year Without Made in China — the story about one family’s attempt to boycott Chinese products for all of 2005 — there wasn’t much about China in it. The book is subtitled “One Family’s True Life Adventure in the …Read More
It’s a damn good thing that I live in a city where the accepted legal tender is basically Monopoly money, because finance gives me the heebie jeebies. It always has. My pre-adolescent lemonade stands went bankrupt, the last time I balanced a checkbook was during a particularly awesome round of hacky-sack, and the merest whiff …Read More
After wandering the halls of the China blogsphere for a few years now, it generally takes a pretty unique China-themed site to raise my eyebrow. ChinaSMACK is just such a site. Essentially the site digs up, translates and reposts all the shit and sludge, peppered liberally with the plain weird, that are hot (or “viral”) …Read More
There’s little doubt that the 2008 Beijing Olympics have become more a political affair galvanizing views of China between “Western bias” and “blind Chinese nationalism” than anything even remotely resembling a global, peace-celebrating sporting event. Because of this, there’s been an endless barrage of reporting and blogging that has gone a long way to inciting …Read More
Everyone’s favourite China user and abuser, Chinabounder, has returned – flicking the lights back on at his blog: Sex and Shanghai/欲望上海. As with his last return, he seems much more focused on sticking it to the Chinese government than he does sticking it to random Chinese girls – that was after all what originally gained …Read More
I’m not a big fan of China Daily, China’s national language newspaper but I do read its website occasionally when there’s nothing better available for work. I recently noticed one thing at the bottom of the each news story, a massage ad. Now I thought that was something only The Shanghai Daily did — and even …Read More
© d. Fuka Living, as I do, just outside of Shanghai tends to see me visit The City on “official business” quite frequently. Not only is it the ultra-modern, socio-cultural mecca of Mainland China – it’s also the closest place to Suzhou a Canadian guy can get consular stuff done. Despite having been to “The …Read More
With that title, it sort of sounds like they were holding one of those eager English-language students hostage. Terrorist activities aside, Chinesepod.com has produced a fantastic guide to the Beijing Olympics for visitors, athletes, journalists – or just whelps like myself who can’t be bothered to deal with the crowds, but wouldn’t mind brushing up …Read More
Some humorous Chinglish from Life in Nanning (blog). In the photographer’s own words: “A Fast Food Chain in Nanning has a strange English translation. The problem is, the local people say the Chinese name (Duo Mei Li – meaning ‘how beautiful’) doesn’t really make sense to them either. They thought it was a bad translation …Read More
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