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Fact or Fiction III: My Laowai Valentine

Welcome back one and all to the February edition of Fact or Fiction.Â Those of you who read either of the last two will know, every edition I will have a guest and we will discuss a few of the big issues in China of the day.Â Every answer will have a “Fact” or a “Fiction” and some justification to go along with it.

Today my guest is fellow Laowai bloggerÂ Ericka. She is currently living in Qingdao, and writes a great deal about jade, learning Chinese, and being attracted to Bruce Lee.Â Today, we’re going to talk about Valentine’s Day, the New Year, and the Winter Olympics.

So join us for Fact or Fiction 3:Â My Laowai Valentine!Read More

Glen

// Feb 28, 2010 //

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General

The future’s bright, the future’s multi-racial

China has called up its first black athlete in the form of 19-year-old Ding Hui, who is in fact mixed-race. The ace volleyball player (pictured, below right) has a Chinese mother and a South African father, and speaks only Putonghua (Mandarin Chinese) and Hangzhouhua (the dialect of his home city, Hangzhou). It will be good …Read More

Eddie Romero: Hero or Douchebag?

The Story Pastor/Professor Eddie Romero came to Beijing to “speak for those who can’t speak for themselves,” i.e. imprisoned dissidents Hu Jia or Shi Tao and others. He did some guerilla mural painting in a few Beijing hotel rooms, which is pretty ballsy for sure. Check out one of his videos below. Lets be thankful …Read More

Beijing 2008 Olympics – In Pictures

Well, they’re over. With the barbarian hordes headed home and 1.3 billion Chinese looking around asking “what now?” – here are a couple links to some amazing moments captured on film during the course of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The first is a slick collection from the New York Times complete with a bit …Read More

Ryan McLaughlin

// Aug 25, 2008

Beijing Olympics

Protesters play secret agents

If ever an argument needed to be made for watching less TV, the groups of Western “Free Tibet” protesters that have snuck in to China are it. There’s a four-page article running on the Washington Post’s site which explains in detail the mission of a group funded by Students for a Free Tibet (cue Mission …Read More

Shocker: Liu Xiang quits Olympic match

To the jaw-dropping disappointment of all 1.3 billion Chinese watching the Olympics – Liu Xiang pulled out of the 110m hurdles just minutes ago. An injury to his hamstring has been plaguing Liu for weeks, but he was hopeful he would be able to compete. It would be little surprise if he or his couch …Read More

Beijing: Chinatown in Disneyland

The streets are clean, the people are smiling, the transportation is free and the staff is able and willing to answer any and all questions.Â Is this Beijing or Disneyland? The city cannot be compared to any other city in Mainland China.Â All construction has stopped for the games which not only helps eliminate some …Read More

Photo of the Week: Chinese Olympic Cheerleaders

Only two days until the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics and with all the cynicism floating around – we here at Lost Laowai needed a little somethin’ somethin’ to … ahem… raise our Olympic spirits. Thanks to ChineseTools.eu for helping us out. Observant readers will remember we featured these girls previously as well.Read More

The O’Pimpics

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

While protesting in the park, stop and smell the 100 flowers

It was announced recently that three Beijing parks, miles away from the Olympic events, will be reserved as areas where people can “protest” during the Olympics. Of course, to protest, you’ll have to apply five days in advance and hope your cause isn’t considered, the rather ubiquitous, “against national interests” (anyone wishing to raise a …Read More

BBC Chinese Website Unblocked; Jaws Drop

It’s only been a month since BBC’s English-language news website was unblocked by Net Nanny for the first time in the three years that I’ve been in China with regular web access. And now today, more astonishingly, the BBC’s Chinese language news site has also been unblocked, quite possibly for the first time in the …Read More

Olympic fashion (non)sense

Well, everyone and their grandma is calling the 2008 Beijing Olympics China’s coming out party, and they’ve just been given the biggest reason yet, as it doesn’t get any gayer than this. Sorry, I don’t mean to offend or misrepresent the gay community, <em>Queer Eye</em> teaches us you all have far more fashion sense than …Read More

Ryan McLaughlin

// Jul 26, 2008 //

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