– It is said that an individual’s fears can be seen in what they spend their life avoiding and evading. As for governments, their fears are exposed in what they censor, and yesterday’s Inauguration speech by the new US president Barack Obama (wow, it feels good to type that for the first time ever) seems to … Read More »
– Shanghai, and mainland China as a whole, got an economic vote of confidence from two fluffy sources this week: Disney and Barbie. News was announced that a Disneyland in Shanghai is likely to be approved this year, and the world’s biggest official Barbie store is finally ready to open in the city. The two American … Read More »
– “Shameless†Zhang Zi Yi unwittingly volunteered to be China’s first web scandal of 2009 when an intrusive long-lens paparazzo snapped the Chinese actress and her western boyfriend playfully cavorting on the beach. Many sites and netizens were outraged at her being ‘nude’, though technically she wasn’t, while other netizens in this country jumped on the … Read More »
– As the paparazzi of Time looks up the celebrity’s skirt of Destiny, and the banker of History robs the taxpayer of Fate, it’s time to face the fact that 2009 is less than 24 hours away. The year 2008 brought Olympic joy and horrific natural disasters, and saw the global credit crunch bite hardest in … Read More »
– Cultural understanding; it’s a lot of what this fine multi-authored blog is all about. So, in my latest missive for Lost Laowai, I’ll get straight to the point in trying to help you understand the sociological signage and semiology of contemporary Chinese male fashion. All right, I’ll come clean, that’s just an excuse for a … Read More »
– Well, that was pretty quick. Just two whole months since the worst of the melamine in Chinese brands of baby formula scandal – and tragedy – two of the companies involved in the food tainting, YiLi and MengNiu, are already starting PR drives to build up trust, and rebuild their shattered sales in the lucrative … Read More »
– Banks collapsing, countries on the edge of bankruptcy, a near-return to the Great Depression. All looks somewhat surreal when viewed from the other side of the planet, does it not? Precisely when – or how – the global crisis will impact on ordinary people in Asia is hard to estimate, but it’s likely to, in … Read More »
– It’s only been a month since BBC’s English-language news website was unblocked by Net Nanny for the first time in the three years that I’ve been in China with regular web access. And now today, more astonishingly, the BBC’s Chinese language news site has also been unblocked, quite possibly for the first time in the … Read More »
– As you might have noticed, “Net nanny is on the rampage†– to quote Danwei – and a number of media websites are totally down when attempting to view within mainland China. This is due to the slowly escalating confrontations, clashes and clamp-downs in T*bet (the Opposite End of China blog managed to get itself … Read More »
– With a U.S. ailing spy satellite being put out of its misery two days ago (Feb. 20th, 07:26 PST) by the U.S. Navy, comes a new source of confrontation between the U.S. and China, just a matter of a few days since Steven Spielberg resigned as an artistic director of the Beijing Olympics in protest … Read More »
– Those Mac vs. PC ads are getting a little tiresome now, so for my next cartoon I’ll rip into those two familiar characters to pit the Chinese search engine Baidu against the international search giant, Google. There are huge regional variations in terms of which search engines and portals are favoured by which nations. The … Read More »
– I hope that this post finds all its readers in good health, and that a happy and prosperous 2008 is heading your way. Here’s my return to blogging at Lost Laowai after a busy few months of moving house and changing jobs. When I often blogged on my own site (which now languishes behind the … Read More »
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