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07 Oct 07
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Feed has moved This feed has moved to http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/feed |
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27 Sep 07
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So some people in China are racist against blacks - should you come to China? Recently I wrote a post about Racism in China, just before finding out about the Beijing Police Rounding Up and Beating of Black People at Josh’s blog. Rick also wrote a post dealing with this called Sino Xenophobia? It’s a really sad an... |
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26 Sep 07
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Water Wheel Extravaganza! In a previous entry on my own blog, I was a bit scathing about our local Water Wheel Park, but I had another look recently and I must admit I have revised my opinion.
On a hot, sunny late September day, I took the screaming yellow 144 bus to the bridge... |
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25 Sep 07
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Elementary Chinese So, this is where my blog begins, again. On Lost Laowai [thanks for having me] not so much because it’s what I think of myself, but because it’s what most people assume I am.
I’m just telling it like it is. Life in China. MY life in Chi... |
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24 Sep 07
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[Group Writing Project] China: Love it ~ Hate it It’s been a couple months since our first Group Writing Project, and as it was quite successful, we feel it’s time for round two. The topic this time is “China: Love It ~ Hate It“.
We’re big fans of the dao and the wacky... |
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19 Sep 07
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Photo of the Week: Choose your poison This week’s Photo of the Week comes from talented HK photographer (and sometimes LLW writer) Derrick Chang, and was taken at the march in HK. Be sure to check out his site - www.maskofchina.com - for more great photos.
Every week we’ll... |
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18 Sep 07
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China Bloggers: A Call to Action Would you like to provide something useful to your readers? Would you like to have more people read what you have to say?
If so, the first thing you need to ask yourself is: What value are you providing to your readers?
If you can’t answer this... |
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17 Sep 07
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Feedup with Feedburner In a last ditch effort to get my feeds working again, I wrote Feedburner. Their response, despite not being what I was hoping for, was at least honest. They’ve basically given up, and so shall I.
Hello,
Unfortunately, at this time we don’t... |
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15 Sep 07
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Brits Get Rich In China A friend of mine just turned me on to a British documentary that aired on Channel 4 back in May - Brits Get Rich In China.
For anyone contemplating exploring business opportunities in China, it should not be missed. An excellent primer, it shows exactly... |
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13 Sep 07
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A Tale of Two Teachers We went to have lunch with one of Mei’s closest friends recently. There I met a lady who, after 2 years training in the early 80’s had been teaching English in high school.
I soon became aware that she really didn’t have all that good a... |
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13 Sep 07
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Beautiful outside, beautiful inside? As a regular air traveler to and from Beijing, I read with much interest the details of the new Beijing terminal that was showcased yesterday. I have no doubt the “design is gorgeous”. I have no doubt that the “design is... |
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11 Sep 07
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Photo of the Week: China Wipes Ass With ‘American Made’ Actually, it ‘Come From’ Shanghai. If Chinese companies can’t stand behind the Made In China stamp, it’s little wonder the rest of the world is running from it faster than you can say quilted tissue quality control.
So, this is our... |
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09 Sep 07
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Cha Cha Cha! Yes, It’s another one of my original headlines! Anyway, call me a counter-revolutionary hooligan if you like, or even an old f**t (lot’s do), but I really can’t get on with Chinese tea.
I send loads of the finest Tei Guan Yin, excuse my... |
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07 Sep 07
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Skewers and Pots The photo you see here is the one that I cut my picture from for this blog. It shows me sitting in front of some of my favourite people, waiting eagerly for a favourite snack.
The kebab (if you can call them that) seller is a happy faced guy who is... |
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06 Sep 07
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Lots of love needed It’s been a pretty difficult day for Mei here in Lanzhou.
Her much loved father passed away nearly 100 days ago, and it’s coming up to the time when she has to go back to her home village to pay her final respects at his grave, near her... |
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06 Sep 07
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Wikipedia gets harmonized again Does it merit mention anymore? Wikipedia is dead. The craptastic part is that even using the until-now infallible hack, it doesn’t work. Bullocks.
Danwei reports that Chinese IT bloggers are getting pretty pissed at the extreme measures the is... |
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05 Sep 07
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First Bass What do people want to read on a blog about being a foreigner in China? As far as I am concerned, mainly because I am an artist and can’t understand such things, not all the rants and complaints, such as why “they” are so infuriati... |
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05 Sep 07
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In China, being prepared isn’t always enough I consider myself a veteran when it comes to backpacking in China. I’ve spent the last four years doing it and it’s taken me all over the country. I think I’ve pretty much seen it all, smelled it all and experienced it all. Needless to say, n... |
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05 Sep 07
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CPC Blocking RSS in PRC is BS Being a blogger in China comes with some cool benefits. Interesting content is generally only a trip to the supermarket away; every topic is controversial, so comments and conversation is a near guarantee; China’s a hot global topic, and so a... |
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05 Sep 07
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Lost Laowai Gets All Two Point Oh’d As I mentioned the other day, or was it the other week? Anyway, as I mentioned, Lost Laowai has been/is going through a rather extensive redesign and upgrade.
There were a lot of reasons I wanted to scrap the old design, not the least of which being that... |
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05 Sep 07
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Air China Pilot can’t Speak English. Wow! As a follow up to my brother’s god-awful experience with Air China, here’s a crazy recording of a Air China pilot who just can’t speak English at the mandatory level.
Pretty disgraceful…
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05 Sep 07
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Has the GFW put out the Feedburner fire? I’ve been trying to access my Feedburner feeds for about 12 hours with no luck. Could it be? No, please Buddha, no! Don’t tell me the Great Firewall of China has finally figured out we could still read blocked blogs via their feeds.
Ok,... |
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05 Sep 07
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What gives you the Right? It’s a question that every expat faces when visiting another country. Do you or do you not have a right to comment, complain, or question the politics of your host country?
There is no shortage of such commentary in the Chinese blogosphere, and many... |
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05 Sep 07
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Lost Laowai v2 Coming Soon Sorry the site’s been quiet lately folks, but I’ve been knee deep in my new business. What it has caused me to do is take a serious look at my sites and question whether or not I’m happy with the layouts. My blog, The Humanaught, was the... |
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05 Sep 07
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China, rise together or raze alone Barely a week goes by without Western media reporting on the latest trademark, copyright or IP infringement coming out of China.
Just today I read that Chinese companies are distributing fake Icewine. Touting it to the rising middle-class that are looking... |
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05 Sep 07
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Skype is down, millions are speechless Skype, the internet telephony service and instant-messaging application, has been non-operational, globally, for the past 24 hours.
It’s a massive outage: effectively crippling an entire company which was worth US$2.6 billion when eBay purchased it... |
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22 Jul 07
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The convictions of truths and lies in China About 10 days ago it was reported that steamed buns in China’s capital were being made with cardboard and pork flavouring. It was then announced earlier this week that the ‘cardboard baozi‘ story was a hoax created by a... |
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19 Jul 07
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Free Oiwan Lam Badges Wait, should there be two free’s in that title? In a follow-up to the post from the other day, it seems the gears are in motion to get Oiwan the public support she so rightly deserves.
Along with the Free Oiwan Lam Facebook group I made mention of... |
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17 Jul 07
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Porno links rubbing HK the wrong way Who the hell is Oiwan Lam and why does she need freeing?
That was the question I was asking myself as when I got the invite to join the Free Oiwan Lam Facebook Group. It was that question that led me to Imagethief’s post of the same title.
Turns out... |
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15 Jul 07
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Let’s play I-Spy in China! Here’s a variation on the common “I spy” game, which might already be familiar to anyone who grew up in Britain and knows the ‘I-SPY’ children’s book series, such as ‘I-SPY in the Street’, ‘I-SPY Cars’,... |
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15 Jul 07
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Starbucks gets the ‘Buck out of the Forbidden City Seattle-based coffee hawker Starbucks has announced that they have closed their Forbidden City location in Beijing’s former Imperial Palace after operating there for the last seven years.
The decision comes after a long line of criticism regarding... |
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15 Jul 07
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Listen to Chinesepod from your Facebook account I can’t deny that I’ve been using Facebook far more any normal person should. It’s like, if hotmail and crack were to somehow have sex and reproduce, the result would surely be something like Facebook.
That said, it is most certainly a... |
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12 Jul 07
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Confucius Says: IP On Your R It somewhat amazes me that I’m still surprised when I hear of blatant copyright infringement by Chinese companies. I mean, am I naive to think this crap is ever going to improve? Is there something culturally missing in China that causes its people... |
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06 Jul 07
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Year of the Not-So-Golden Pig — RYAN EDIT I am always a bit behind in writing and posting ideas. This post would optimally have hit the blogsphere, sometime, say, in the months before an estimated 22 million Chinese women conceived in order to give birth to babies before the end of the year.
But... |
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06 Jul 07
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China Blog Awards: Please vote for us! As I announced about a week and a half ago, the 2007 China Blog Awards are on. Well, as of July 1st, voting has begun. There is no panel of judges and no use of site stats to decide the winners. It is completely based on popularity in the community.
So,... |
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03 Jul 07
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How To Do The Asian Squat Here’s a little something to brighten your day. Funny AND informative.
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02 Jul 07
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So this is what gets you blocked The post I wrote a couple days ago, Block you! You motherblocker!, has gotten a fair amount of comments, and all of it seemed dandy until Zhong Guo Ren tuned in.
Here is a recreation of their comment, as I had to sift through the database and manually... |
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01 Jul 07
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Shenzhen Shekou Sea World Flood On Sunday, June 10th, a rainstorm flooded the Sea World square in Shekou, Shenzhen. The flood has caused economic losses worth tens of millions of yuan, and virtually destroyed 20 restaurants and shops in the area.
The following was sent in via e-mail by... |
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28 Jun 07
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Block you! You motherblocker! I remember there was a time when a blocking of a site was a covert and dreadful thing. A bit of a sign that you had “made it” as someone fighting the good fight.
“Blocked in China” seemed like such a ‘thing to be’. Sure... |
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26 Jun 07
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Lip Service For The People So, it looks like everyone’s favorite Angel has gotten herself in a bit of Peruvian hot water when she wore a bag with Mao’s famous slogan “为人民服务” on it while visiting the lost Inca city - Machu Picchu.
Ya see, Peru had s... |
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26 Jun 07
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What comes after China? In the theme of our recent group writing project, The China Expat blog has launched his own group writing project - “What comes after China?”
Now before you get huffy and/or puffy about participating in another group writing project so soon,... |
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22 Jun 07
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Bring on the Best of the Chinosphere - China Blog Awards 2007 Well, there’s been a secret little project brewing lately. fiLi and I have been conspiring to create the latest incarnation of the China Blog Awards.
fiLi, as some may know, is the brains behind the Chinalyst, a community/aggregator for... |
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21 Jun 07
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‘Education is change’, so why not give some change? Some of you may have heard about the ambitious, big-in-heart, project my friend Tom has been devoting every waking hour to - The Library Project.
When I wrote about it at its inception last November, I admit, I didn’t have half the vision towards it... |
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19 Jun 07
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GWP: If I Knew Then What I Know Now - Project Closed And so marks the end of the first Lost Laowai group writing project. We received a total of twelve submissions - not at all bad for our first go at this.
We had a last minute submission from Liu Kaiqin:
出乎意料之外?? （in China) :: By Liu Ka... |
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17 Jun 07
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Group Writing Project Reminder Just a quick reminder that the group writing project will officially end at the end of the day tomorrow (Monday).
So, if you’re still interested in sharing your misconceptions or what you “thought you knew” about China before you came... |
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15 Jun 07
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Regarding Hitler In my first post here at Lost Laowai, I wrote about a student of mine who calls herself Nazi. She is, in most ways, a pleasant girl who studies hard and takes responsibility for her class. Despite bureaucratic tendencies, she hardly seems... |
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15 Jun 07
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GWP: If I Knew… Update Here is an update of submissions for the “If I Knew Then What I Know Now” group writing project. Be sure to keep your eye on the official submission page for a complete list.
A guest abroad and a foreigner back home :: By Steven
6 Things... |
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13 Jun 07
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Lost Laowai One Year Old! I was chillin’ out at the bottom of my blog when I noticed a little feature I had installed ages ago that shows me a post from that day a year previous. Well, imagine my surprise when the post is none other than the Lost Laowai inception... |
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12 Jun 07
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Flickr Blues? Bash the Block For anyone in the PRC, you may have noticed that Flickr images have been blocked lately. Getting onto the site isn’t a problem, but it would appear the site that serves the images has made the ever-fluctuating black list of the Great Firewall of... |
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11 Jun 07
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Group Writing Project: If I Knew Then What I Know Now I ran across a blog post over at Dalian blogger Kim’s great new spot, East-West Station, and it got me thinking.
In the post, entitled “The Years BC“, Kim recounts the (often entertainment-industry induced) rather skewed knowledge he had... |
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