By Barry M I was just leaving a comment on the always refreshingly drinkable Beijing Boyce blog when I saw one of my biggest Chinese Pinyin pet peeves – chuanr. 串儿, for those who’ve been in China for less than an hour, generally means tasty bits on a stick. Chuà n/串 (meaning to string together) + …Read More
Not sure if you’ve heard the news, but China has banned Western religious music. Well, technically, it was banned all along, but only now are the powers that be getting their red and yellow panties in a bunch. The banning news hit the wire after The Messiah, as to be performed by Britian’s Academy of Ancient Music at …Read More
Rolling into Shanghai’s People’s Square last Sunday, New Zealander Rob Thomson was met with surprisingly little fanfare. No media to greet him, no friends or family to congratulate him. A lonesome end to an amazing journey. The random Chinese man he asked to take his photo to mark the moment had no idea that Thomson …Read More
A report released on Wednesday exposed the fact that the Chinese version of Skype has been snooping and storing the full text chat messages of TOM-Skype users (along with regular Skype users who have communicated with TOM-Skype users) on publicly-accessible servers. The report, BREACHING TRUST: An analysis of surveillance and security practices on China’s TOM-Skype …Read More
Taken by Jaune d’eau at the Kunshan Beerfest this September. I just love this photo – for the lighting, for the unique subject, for the expressions in the crowd – and for the fact that it has this very reminiscent revolutionary feel to it; sort of a Great Leap Forward meets drunken carnival. I had …Read More
Whenever I become too cocky about my Chinese skills I seem to have a humbling experience: The latest took place the other week at my university. After a class where I actually understood all the major points of the newspaper articles we were reading, I headed for the book store to buy myself a ruler. …Read More
***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
Just a quick note to let everyone know that the Lost Laowai blog‘s address has changed ever so slightly. Though all the old links and feed will be automatically redirected, should you wish to update your bookmarks and RSS readers, the new addresses are: http://www.lostlaowai.com/blog http://www.lostlaowai.com/blog/feed/rss UPDATE: http://www.lostlaowai.com/blog/feed Again, all links should automatically redirect even …Read More
Every few months the media seems to dig up a new quality control issue with Chinese products. Many of these are largely just typical media fear factoring, but the recent “melamine in milk” debacle is very real and very wide-spanning. If you’re like me, you probably gasped in horror when it was reported that all …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
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