Arts & Entertainment

Review: Learning Chinese through video with FluentU

This week FluentU (who changed their name from Fluent Fix – which personally, I liked a bit more) announced that they now have over 300 videos available for Chinese study on their site. 308, at the moment actually, and more all the time. Congratulations to the FluentU team on all that hard work! But what’s …Read More

Nicki

// Nov 14, 2012 //

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Humour

Racist Chinglish?: ‘Your big John is not as long as you think’

I thought I had seen all the wacky Chinglish translations there were, but this one grabbed my attention. From Weibo, the picture has quite different ways of telling its domestic and foreign patrons how to use the urinal. For the English, it makes a rather crude joke about the size of one’s member. For the …Read More

Laowai Style

Much to the chagrin of my dear hubby, I’ve been watching at least one Gangnam Style parody video a day. Hey, it keeps me happy. A Gangnam Style a day keeps the bad China days away! Here’s my new favorite: Laowai Style!Read More

Gangnam Style with Chinese Characteristics

Here’s a little late-week fun — a vid using old PLA red song troupe footage mixed with the meme-inducing Gangnam Style by Korea’s PSY:

(on Youku here)

And if you’ve not seen it, check out this equally awesome vid of the same Red Army footage using MJ’s “Beat It”.

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Ryan McLaughlin

// Sep 13, 2012 //

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Movies

Film Review: Inseparable, predictably unpredictable

Truthfully, I didn’t know what to expect when I hit play on Dayyan Eng’s latest film, Inseparable. A look at the cover had me curious, a look at the cast had me interested and a look at its location had me sold. But, if you’re expecting Inseparable to be Kick-Ass, it isn’t. If you’re expecting …Read More

In Beijing? Buy some art, help autistic kids

A little PSA for all our friends in Beijing. If you’re into art, or would just like to help a good cause, find a dry pair of shoes and head down to 798 to check out this event. UPDATE: Please note that due to the weather, the event has been postponed until this Saturday, July …Read More

‘China 2050’ explores the future of foreigners in China — get your fruit carts early laowai

A series of photographs by French photographer Benoit Cezard, imagining what China may be like four decades down the road with Westerns filling the roles commonly seen among the poorer Chinese migrant workers today, has been making the rounds.

Shanghai Calling is calling for your expat stories

If you’re like me, you probably perk up anytime you hear about a movie being made in or about China. Having one made about expats living in China was a first though, and so when I first heard about Shanghai Calling, a romantic comedy about American expats living in Shanghai, I was pretty keen to …Read More

You what? – strange things my students say about the West

I’m a week away from finishing my first academic year as what can loosely be described as a university teacher in China. Someone told me that I should write some kind of retrospective/memoir, but that sounded like far too much work. I mean, I’m on holiday in a week. I’ve begun the wind-down and I’m …Read More

Google addresses a problem with Mainland searching … finally

For a bleeding-edge tech company, it’s sure hard not to feel Google’s been a bit slow to acknowledge and address a phenomenon that anyone in China has been witnessing for years — search results are censored. In a new video and blog post, the folks at Google illustrate the problem and explain that they will …Read More