Help preserve China’s disappearing dialects

Kellen Parker, who has both been featured on and contributed to Lost Laowai over the years, is spearheading a new project called Phonemica, which aims to “record spoken stories in every one of the thousands of varieties of Chinese in order to preserve both stories and language for future generations.”Read More

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Beijing’s Little Adoption Shop looking for some help

The following is a plea for help/donations from Christopher Barden, the founder of the Little Adoption Shop, an organization in Beijing that helps rescued dogs find homes. They’re in desperate need of some funding. The Little Adoption Shop currently has 125 dogs in our care, and we are constantly under pressure to meet our growing …Read More

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Help Out: Lili and Little Wolf

Greetings, Lost Laowai readers! I am Little Wolf, though some of you that have been around for awhile might remember me as Lang-Lang from the old Sinocidal crew. Ryan has been kind enough to allow me to hijack his blog in order to help a little girl. Perhaps many of you are already aware of …Read More

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