Seattle-based coffee hawker Starbucks has announced that they have closed their Forbidden City location in Beijing’s former Imperial Palace after operating there for the last seven years. The decision comes after a long line of criticism regarding the appropriateness of having such a symbol of the modern world in the middle of one of China’s …Read More
I can’t deny that I’ve been using Facebook far more any normal person should. It’s like, if hotmail and crack were to somehow have sex and reproduce, the result would surely be something like Facebook. That said, it is most certainly a great way to stay in touch with people who would otherwise have fallen …Read More
It somewhat amazes me that I’m still surprised when I hear of blatant copyright infringement by Chinese companies. I mean, am I naive to think this crap is ever going to improve? Is there something culturally missing in China that causes its people to be completely ignorant to the idea of “ownership” and OPS? I …Read More
I am always a bit behind in writing and posting ideas. This post would optimally have hit the blogsphere, sometime, say, in the months before an estimated 22 million Chinese women conceived in order to give birth to babies before the end of the year. But alas, it’s too late to stop them. However, my …Read More
As I announced about a week and a half ago, the 2007 China Blog Awards are on. Well, as of July 1st, voting has begun. There is no panel of judges and no use of site stats to decide the winners. It is completely based on popularity in the community. Blogs are divided into six …Read More
Here’s a little something to brighten your day. Funny AND informative. 😉 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWTmg4dHiKg&v3Read More
The post I wrote a couple days ago, Block you! You motherblocker!, has gotten a fair amount of comments, and all of it seemed dandy until Zhong Guo Ren tuned in. Here is a recreation of their comment, as I had to sift through the database and manually delete it (when ever viewed, the page …Read More
On Sunday, June 10th, a rainstorm flooded the Sea World square in Shekou, Shenzhen. The flood has caused economic losses worth tens of millions of yuan, and virtually destroyed 20 restaurants and shops in the area. The following was sent in via e-mail by a concerned reader: The June 28-July 1 editions of our local …Read More
I remember there was a time when a blocking of a site was a covert and dreadful thing. A bit of a sign that you had “made it” as someone fighting the good fight. “Blocked in China” seemed like such a ‘thing to be’. Sure Amnesty was; and pro dem sites, those were a given. …Read More
So, it looks like everyone’s favorite Angel has gotten herself in a bit of Peruvian hot water when she wore a bag with Mao’s famous slogan “为人民æœåŠ¡” on it while visiting the lost Inca city – Machu Picchu. Ya see, Peru had some issues with the commies during the 80s, when the Peruvian Communist Party …Read More
In the theme of our recent group writing project, The China Expat blog has launched his own group writing project – “What comes after China?” Now before you get huffy and/or puffy about participating in another group writing project so soon, consider that on any given day most of us just write a bunch of …Read More
Well, there’s been a secret little project brewing lately. fiLi and I have been conspiring to create the latest incarnation of the China Blog Awards. fiLi, as some may know, is the brains behind the Chinalyst, a community/aggregator for English-language China blogs. It seems that his site is therefore the perfect venue to get these …Read More
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