Zhang Ziyi is in the headlines here in China again. She was seen recently at a NY Knicks game with a laowai nanyou, or foreign boyfriend. The outrage from people writing comments is amazing. Although she has become famous in Japan, Korea, and the US, she has a hard time here in the mainland. Some Americans call her the female Yao Ming, but most Chinese mainlanders hate her.
I think Yao Ming is loved because he is a man. Yao Ming, like most Chinese men, can do whatever he wants, but for women in China there are certain roles that …
A couple days ago Danwei and Imagethief both had good posts that gave a couple varying opinions on the recent increase in attention to the Starbucks in the Forbidden City. The issue has been recently stirred up by CCTV anchorman Rui Chenggang and his call for Starbucks to get out and stay out of one of China’s best-known cultural heritage sites (in Chinese @ Rui’s blog, in translation via ESWN).
“The Chinese people did not have the taste or tradition for drinking coffee, but Starbucks has turned China into its second largest global market. This is an …
Today, one of my friends said to me “dude, you seem so bitter lately,” and after a little introspection I realized that he was right – I have been bitter lately. It seems like lots of things have gone wrong all at once, and I’m starting to generalize my dislike for the things that have gone wrong into a dislike for China and vast swathes of her population.
Expats who have been in China for more than a couple years know that the China Funk is a cyclical beast, one that rears its ugly head occasionally and causes you to focus on all the bad things that living in China (or any developing country with a starkly different culture, for that …
I recently caught this article in my CBC news feed and it got me thinking about what the Chinese call “snake heads“.
They are so named for ‘leading/heading’ groups of “rénshé” into other countries. Rénshé is the slang for those Chinese that slither across borders into other countries illegally. Poetic language, Chinese is.
Snake heads are often the baddies in movies where some evil mastermind has packed a bunch of poor immigrants into a cargo container with too-little ventilation and is extorting an outlandish fee to bring them to the “good life”. We then learn, in clever …
Hey you. Yeah, you with the chopstick cramped hands, belly full of Gong Bao Ji Ding and a cough that just wont go away. We’re looking for a few people with a unique voice and solid relationship with their keyboard to help us fill this space with more than just requests for writers.
Now that the Lost Laowai Blog has got some footing and posts under our belt, we’re on the lookout for some writers and we think you might just be that person.
I know what you’re thinking - how can we know it’s you we’re looking for… and the truth is, we’ve been watching you for sometime. We’ve …
It would seem that it’s becoming more and more popular to mine your stat programs for blog topics, and we’d be remiss here at Lost Laowai if we didn’t do the same. Now I’m not going to go on and on about how our number of visitors have doubled in three months (yep… went from 1.5 people to 3… wait… I mean 6,000 to 12,000 - yeah, amazes me too)… rather, I’m going to focus, as many have, on the weird things people searched for in the month of December and ended up coming here…
Number one on the list was “guangzhou china working girls” … alright, not too weird. Our blog isn’t really about Guangzhou, but we featured the city’s …
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