While most of the annual Spring Festival migration is from big cities to the small cities and the countryside as workers, students, and whoever else was able to find a plane or train ticket leaves their jobs for a week to spend the holiday with the family back home, I have noticed over the last …Read More
Reflections on a month spent wandering the Chinese Internet: China was hit hard about a month ago by the big Boxing Day earthquake in Taiwan, which knocked out or hindered access to most foreign websites from behind the great wall. As one Chinese acquaintance of mine put it “This is really a big inconvenience for …Read More
Zhang Ziyi is in the headlines here in China again. She was seen recently at a NY Knicks game with a laowai nanyou, or foreign boyfriend. The outrage from people writing comments is amazing. Although she has become famous in Japan, Korea, and the US, she has a hard time here in the mainland. Some …Read More
A couple days ago Danwei and Imagethief both had good posts that gave a couple varying opinions on the recent increase in attention to the Starbucks in the Forbidden City. The issue has been recently stirred up by CCTV anchorman Rui Chenggang and his call for Starbucks to get out and stay out of one …Read More
Today, one of my friends said to me “dude, you seem so bitter lately,†and after a little introspection I realized that he was right – I have been bitter lately. It seems like lots of things have gone wrong all at once, and I’m starting to generalize my dislike for the things that have …Read More
I recently caught this article in my CBC news feed and it got me thinking about what the Chinese call “snake heads“. They are so named for ‘leading/heading’ groups of “rénshé” into other countries. Rénshé is the slang for those Chinese that slither across borders into other countries illegally. Poetic language, Chinese is. Snake heads …Read More
Hey you. Yeah, you with the chopstick cramped hands, belly full of Gong Bao Ji Ding and a cough that just wont go away. We’re looking for a few people with a unique voice and solid relationship with their keyboard to help us fill this space with more than just requests for writers. Now that …Read More
It would seem that it’s becoming more and more popular to mine your stat programs for blog topics, and we’d be remiss here at Lost Laowai if we didn’t do the same. Now I’m not going to go on and on about how our number of visitors have doubled in three months (yep… went from …Read More
www.HaoHaoReport.com Right, so my little birdy’s left the nest. I’ve just finished moving the Hao Hao Report into its very own domain – www.haohaoreport.com. I’m going to miss having the guy around here, but I’ll visit often… and so should you 😉 The Hao Hao Report, for those just stumbling upon this blog, is a …Read More
Ah, Back To The Future. Great Scott did I ever ponder the title of that movie when I was a kid! It completely threw me for a loop. I’d just get to sorting out the direction it was pointing me when I’d hit that last word and all was lost. It is fitting then that …Read More
I live in Suzhou, and as such am well accustomed to the pain-in-the-assedness of the seething swarms of scooters that buzz about the city, apparently oblivious to my peripatetic situation. These things are everywhere, and have more than once jutted in front of busses I’ve been on, causing the passengers in the back to intimately …Read More
With a mere 610 days to go, the 2008 Beijing Olympics are quickly approaching. The nearer they get, the more displaced people can be found wandering around the city wondering where their neighborhood went. Well folks, always eager to utilize form and function, us here at LLW have discovered the solution: Mr. McGroovy’s Box Rivets. …Read More
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