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After seeing what some people in China are willing to feed to human babies, it’s no wonder that so many animals in China are going the way of Blinky the 3-eyed fish on the Simpsons. Now I love Chinese food as much as the next guy, but I gotta admit that the animals on this list kinda make me want to opt for some other kind of food.
This week I was heckled for my lazy pronunciation of shui3jiao3, “boiled dumpling”, which apparently sounded more like shui4jiao4, “to sleep”, making the restaurant name Grandma’s Dumplings, sound something like Grandma is sleeping. This mistake is another example (as if anyone needed more) of the importance of tones in Mandarin. For non-native speakers, Chinese can [...]
As a blogger in the China expat niche you tend to make a lot of fast friends, as we’re all sort of in this together. The downside is most of those friends are better known for their avatars than their actualities. Fortunately there are events like the one this Saturday (February 28) at M1NT in [...]
Most expats in China have likely run across Yang Rui while flipping through all one channels of English-language programming. The host of CCTV 9′s desperately dry Dialogue, Yang has a disposition that is as unforgettable as it is annoying.
Dialogue has been likened to a Larry King Live-style talk show, whereby Yang interviews various guests about current events and politics. His banter generally takes on a “combative for the sake of combativeness” method – particularly when the guest has any view contrary to the PRC line.
So, it was particularly amusing to see Yang’s (obviously unedited) Wikipedia article:
To help relieve a drought in Northern China, the gov’t induced snow by seeding the clouds over the capital with silver oxide. Some Beijing residents are using the rare flake fall to take part in classic winter activities – with not so classic designs. From the photographer, Scott Sykes (blog): “People are relieved and happy. Pictured is a snowman built by some teenagers near where I live. Snow adds some color and texture to the sometimes grey winter landscape in Beijing. Despite the fact that it is cold enough for snow several months per year, it rarely snows in Beijing because of the dry climate.“
It’s the Irresistible Force meets the Immovable Object. Apple, the Californian electronics firm, and China Mobile, the state-owned telecommunications giant, have been locked in a slow, secretive, yet embittered year-long struggle to release and control Apple’s iPhone in mainland China. By “control” I refer to both revenue from user contracts/subscriptions, as well as to the [...]
The Mandarin Oriental Hotel, what upon opening this year would have been one of Beijing’s most exclusive and luxurious hotels, lit up like a, well, like a lantern tonight while the rest of the country celebrated Lantern Festival. Proving again the newsability of Twitter, the story broke online as it happened, with videos appearing on [...]
An American group by the name of the National Labor Committee (NLC) has just released a shocking in-depth report on working and living conditions for factory workers in one particular ‘hi-tech’ plant in Dongguan, southern China, which makes computer keyboards for Lenovo, HP, Dell, IBM, and Microsoft. The deeply alarming report was compiled after months [...]
NOTICE: Unfortunately, due to threats of legal action by Chris Devonshire-Ellis, this post and its comments have been taken down. Though I am confident that the contents of the article are not in any way libelous, as Ellis claims, his threats did not limit themselves to seeking a court decision on whether or not they [...]
From the photographer (blog): “A pair of teenage girls watches a snake show at the Ditan Park Spring Festival temple fair in Beijing.”
NOTE: The original photo of the week has been changed, as it was pointed out in the comments that it wasn’t actually taken in China – heavy sleuthing guys. It’s still an amusing photo though – check it out here.
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