***Cross-posted on PandaPassport.com. Re-posting here, in an effort to help out some fellow Laowai in China. Yeah, you heard me. A gaelic football team in China. If you don’t know what gaelic/Irish football is, that doesn’t really matter so much. Just check it out below in the video. Long story short, there’s a team here …Read More
In the people of the United-States of America and the People’s Republic of China we have two examples of a citizenry brazenly immune to the betrayals visited upon them by their political leaders. After 8 years of Bush chaos, death and destruction, a Republican candidate still stands a good chance of seceding him at the …Read More
Because Chinese can be Lost Laowai too, can’t they? Three men – one of whom is surnamed Liu, while the other two are surnamed Wang – purchased a glittering “treasure” for $2,000 in Kyrgyzstan. They brought it back to Xinjiang, hoping to make a fortune by selling it. Because they knew nothing about the 274-kg …Read More
Photo by Shyald As the de facto editorial desk for Lost Laowai, I tend to get a lot of e-mail touting all the amazing things that “YOUR READERS WANT TO KNOW ABOUT”. I, perhaps overly liberally, trash the majority of them. However, having just received notice that the 1st World Mind Sports Games is coming …Read More
I don’t usually pick the newest submission to the Lost Laowai Flickr Group as the photo of the week, as there’s always a backlog of great photos I like to pull from – however I couldn’t resist this stunning shot of a small inhabited island in Hunan by Douglas M. Paine/AlphafishRead More
A remenant story from the Beijing Olympics where Western media trying to cover something “sensitive” were met by the Chinese authoritarian public guard? “…Â All three were violently manhandled by law enforcement officers. Abdel Kouddous was slammed against a wall and the ground, leaving his arms scraped and bloodied. He sustained other injuries to his chest …Read More
I remember back at the turn of the century, as I was just getting out of college and heading into a job at a music magazine, thinking how depressing the music scene was. As a highschooler growing up in the early-mid 90s indie scene, it was depressing to see the majority of listeners having turned …Read More
This week’s photo comes from famed Lost Laowai commenter Matthew J. Stinson – who is evidently quite handy with a camera as well as words. I know there are plenty of “purists” out there who disagree with HDR photos, but I love ’em. I particularly like this shot as it looks like it could be …Read More
I never would have though it, but BBC has got to be one of the hippest mainstream news outlets out there. Who else would turn to Gorillaz’ Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn to produce a video, music and overall theme to their Olympic coverage? Check out BBC’s Monkey Olympics video – very Gorillaz-esque:Read More
This was actually game two for the day, but it’s hard to work a half-day in Suzhou, jump on a two hour train and get to the Nanjing Olympic Stadium (no Olympic events have been or ever will be staged here, by the way) in time for a 2 pm game. Plus, Chico and I …Read More
Three days to go, the country is primed, factories temporarily closed, cars off the roads, the algea invasion temporarily stymied, battalions of garbage collectors pulled back from the urban front-line, peddlers of counterfeit goods pushed further underground, city streets beautified, foreign media covering China like they just found out it’s there, the delegations of diplomats …Read More
I’m supposed to be on a brief holiday in Hangzhou, but couldn’t resist posting about this AP article: Beijingers get dress code advice for Olympics. One of the things that has always bothered me about China is the way that “officials” treat the public like children. Now certainly, anyone that has been in China for …Read More
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