If you’ve been using the Firefox addon Access Flickr, which allows you view Flickr photos while being behind the Great Firewall, you may have noticed some photos display just fine and some wont at all. Since posting last june about the fantastic solution for us shutterbugs in China, Flickr has added a new “farm” for [...]
Archive for March, 2008
China Celebrates Its Status As World’s Number One Air Polluter
With all the seriousness going on with these days, here’s a little hilarity to lighten the mood. China Celebrates Its Status As World’s Number One Air Polluter
YouTube’s Back, with BBC News thrown in too
Now with the troubles in the West mostly harmonized, and Taiwan’s newly-elected president certified as China Friendly, it looks like YouTube has returned to its previous sluggish-but-accessible self. As a freebie, the powers that free also appear to have unblocked BBC News, a site that to the best of my knowledge has been blackballed near [...]
Book Review: Managing the Dragon
Managing the Dragon provides very good insights into what was needed in the 90s to bring a successful fund into China to build a world-class Chinese automotive components company. The author, Jack Perkowski, started out as a successful Wall Street investment banker. After twenty years, he took an interest in China and moved his family, [...]
Help a Laowai Win In China
Should any Beijing Laowai have a free schedule tomorrow and wish to support a fellow foreigner in his bid to show a national TV audience that he’s got some guanxi too, while also helping raise awareness for a charity that secures micro loans for poor rural women, please read the following from American expat, Henry [...]
我有事: Suuuuuure
For a terrible liar like myself, coming up with excuses for missing class was never easy. I always tried to strike a balance between telling the unvarnished truth and not being too evasive, but didn’t always succeed. Going to high school in the States, saying “I had things to do” simply didn’t suffice. Explanations like, [...]
Inconvenient news
As you might have noticed, “Net nanny is on the rampage” – to quote Danwei – and a number of media websites are totally down when attempting to view within mainland China. This is due to the slowly escalating confrontations, clashes and clamp-downs in T*bet (the Opposite End of China blog managed to get itself [...]
When is one an old China Hand?
I’m nearing my five-year mark of being in China. I don’t view that as a long time but people I meet increasingly are. It surprises me because I always view “Old China Hands” – the term that’s developed for foreigners that have been here a long time. I used to see the term as something [...]
Troubles in China’s Wild West
I’ve been hesitant to write much about the violent underway in , as I figured it was a sure way to get the site blocked(a la YouTube). However, I’m really impressed with the folks over at Peking Duck and their ongoing updates about the situation. Additionally, there’s some fantastic activity in the comments coming from [...]
Communist Tax Lawyer – Clever Socialist Spam
There’s a new… umm… blog(?) coming to town and it’s aiming to clean up capitalist China consultants like they were Lenin’s laundry. While chatting with Rich Brubaker today (who was in turn also discussing the issue with Chris Devonshire-Ellis) I discovered I wasn’t the only one receiving cleverly crafted proletarian posters insidiously inserted in my [...]
