Since posting last june about the fantastic solution for us shutterbugs in China, Flickr has added a new “farm” for photo storage - essentially a different sub-domain of the Flickr site. Unless you are using the latest version of the addon, currently 1.9, you will have sporadic broken images in your browser.
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An interesting article with …
With all the seriousness going on with 
China Celebrates Its Status As World’s Number One Air Polluter
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 the entire time I’ve been in China (3+ years).
Most of the usual suspects (Wikipedia, most all blogging networks, Flickr images, etc.), however, haven’t felt the sweet flick of any switches that would see them return to mainstream Chinese Internet viewership.
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, where he focused on raising funds to build a Chinese automotive components manufacturer, ASIMCO.
When he went to China in the early 90s, the Chinese government …
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 Winter:
I am competing in a national TV reality show called “Win In China” [site in Chinese] - it’s a lot like The Apprentice. We started with 150,000 candidates, and now only 11 are left. I am the first foreigner ever to be on the show, which the show producers frequently point out on air….
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, “Y’know, I just wasn’t feeling well” or “I lost track of time!” were better but harder to pull off convincingly. It would almost have been better just to tell the truth and hope for the best, even if “I was drinking beer in the parking lot, Mr. Principal” would have raised an eyebrow or two.
I’d like to say that as my 10th high school …
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 unblocked by similarly putting asterisks into the names of sensitive places. Apologies if it’s annoying or confusing; please bear with me).
Also - in a new twist on interweb scuttling - some individual pages within a website are mysteriously not showing up. This would explain why a number of pages on the website of the ‘The Times’ (of London) which relate to events …
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 that was meant for people who were at least 10 years into their stay here, people who arrived before Starbucks had its claws into almost every Chinese city.
But I’ve had some people who’ve put into 10 or even almost 20 years here tell me that I’ve got better China coping skills than them. I speak better Mandarin - though I don’t know how you can …
I’ve been hesitant to write much about the violent 
However, I’m really impressed with the folks over at Peking Duck and their ongoing updates about the
Also, Michael D. Manning’s Opposite End of China is dishing out some great coverage of the topic, and how things have spilled over into other areas of the country. It is, however, being blocked for those of us in-country
Which brings me to the fact that I’ve had a …
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 inbox (I’ve mentioned I love alliteration’s, right).
I hate the invasion of my inbox about as much as I hate the invasion of my anus, but this socialistic spam was something else.
The e-mails are nothing but a slogan and an attached image - nothing too uncommon there actually, as I get Cialis and stock (and sometimes Cialis stock) e-mails of the same structure all the …
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