I love comments. Love how they add a depth of interaction with a readership that you could not have in traditional media. I think it’s awesome. However, net nannies of the world have a strong case for the need of an Internet tidy-up if you look at your average cross-section of comments on various China …Read More
Anyone that reads this blog often enough knows that I’ve no love for censorship. I down-right loath it. Freedom of speech is the apex of [*hr*]. There is not a situation I can think of whereby I feel a person should have their ability to speak on any topic they desire taken away from them. …Read More
Who the hell is Oiwan Lam and why does she need freeing? That was the question I was asking myself as when I got the invite to join the Free Oiwan Lam Facebook Group. It was that question that led me to Imagethief’s post of the same title. Turns out Oiwan, an editor for Global …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
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
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
Some of you may have heard about the ambitious, big-in-heart, project my friend Tom has been devoting every waking hour to – The Library Project. When I wrote about it at its inception last November, I admit, I didn’t have half the vision towards it that Tom so obviously does. I thought it would be …Read More
In my first post here at Lost Laowai, I wrote about a student of mine who calls herself Nazi. She is, in most ways, a pleasant girl who studies hard and takes responsibility for her class. Despite bureaucratic tendencies, she hardly seems totalitarian. But a lot of friends, both online and off, told me I …Read More
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