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
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
Recently a friend forwarded my name to a freelance reporter for the China Daily Hong Kong edition. Yes, like many of you, I didn’t know China Daily had a Hong Kong edition …more on that later. The Canadian born Chinese China Daily reporter emailed me a list of questions regarding English teaching and English use …Read More
I just got finished reading that Time Out Beijing, one of the city’s preeminent English-language entertainment guides, has been suspended indefinitely. Not, as one might guess, because it had been publishing subvert-the-youth articles or anything of the sort – but simply because it wasn’t properly licensed. Fair enough. I mean, in pretty much any country …Read More
What follows is the third part of a series of posts we’re running by fellow Laowai – Turner Sparks. Turner and his friend Jake decided just sitting around Suzhou and watching quake relief efforts on TV was not good enough, and so hopped into Turner’s car and pointed it towards Chengdu. Read Part I and …Read More
I’ve gotten a little tired of all the stories about Chinese and nationalism around that I spent most of last weekend trying to avoid most foreign news coverage about it. But I was dragged back in an interesting way when I learned to a recent podcast on the Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) Radio’s Ideas program. …Read More
Hot off the extremely reliable mobile SMS chain comes news that Carrefour and the French government have banned together to concoct a special May Holiday sale to lure Chinese customers away from their boycott. And not just that, French TV is hoping to catch it all for the 6-o’clock news, presumably to put the French …Read More
The lead-up to the Beijing 2008 Olympics has spun so totally out of whack that I believe they need to add a new sport to the Games – Puerile Ping Pong. The event pits countries from across the globe against each other in a balls-out relay race to see who can reach absolute absurdity first, …Read More
If you ever been around Shanghai’s People’s Square and Nanjing West Road, you’ve seen them — the shoe shine guys. They’ve got their little foot bench that doubles as a carryall for their oily rags and 3-kuai tube of shoe polish. If you work in that area of Shanghai these guys will pester you. Two …Read More
Let me get this straight. A man dedicates his time, money and energy working to help the poor, the sick, the dying, the forgotten and the endangered. And rather than the acclaim and accolade he deserves, he is kidnapped, put under house arrest and now sentenced to 3 1/2 years of hard time in prison …Read More
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