eChinaCities has a good rundown of what we can expect from tomorrow’s massive 60th anniversary celebration marking the founding of the People’s Republic of China. It can be watched online in English via CCTV9 starting first thing in the morning. Like most China-centric sites, you may have troubles loading the players in anything other than [...]
Archive for September, 2009
A Good Dog Couple – 好一对狗男女
Manners (and I know it’s been said before, but not like this)
I have eaten dinner with Chinese people at a number of fancy restaurants and a variety of closed-off rooms at special establishments. Each time, I pick out the things that I can bear most from the curious selection of oddities on the table and prepare to eat. Each time, this carefully chosen meal is interrupted [...]
The Amateur’s Guide to Chinese Name Translation
Chinese names, to the untrained ear, may sound somewhat similar. They jumble together in a scrambled binary of Changs, Wangs, Wus and Hus. They are hard to remember, since they are all 2-to-3 segment K’NEX sets of syllables that fail to strike a strong note with western minds. Yet upon further intensive (albeit unscholarly) investigation, [...]
Save Money, Die Better
Cleptos beware, if you happen to be suspected of thievery from a Wal-Mart in Jiangxi province, you might just end up beaten to death.
That is, at least, what happened to Yu Xiaochun a little more than a week ago. On August 30 the 37-year-old woman exited the Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, Wal-Mart and proceeded to her home [...]
10 Slightly Off the Beaten Path Locations in China
Still haven’t made up your mind for the October Holiday yet? Don’t want to bother leaving the country, but have already done Beijing, Shanghai, Xi’an, and the like? Well worry not, I’m here to help!
I’ve come up with 10 of my favourite places to visit here in China that are off the usual laowai tourist route. Of course, since this country has a billion people, it is very difficult to truly be able to leave the beaten path. But is that necessarily such a bad thing? I mean, places are visited because they are exceptional…for the most part. But many of these locations seem to be skipped over by other foreigners for reasons I do not truly understand.
Hopefully you’ll find some inspirations here…
Photo: Dancing in the Rain
It’s been a while since we’ve featured one of Douglas M. Paine’s images as the Featured Photo here on Lost Laowai – but it’s certainly not for a lack of choice (we just like to spread the love around a bit). Better known as Alphafish on Flickr, Douglas’ shots are nothing short of inspiring. This photo taken at the Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi’an is a perfect featured photo to mark the end of summer.
The Urban Legends among Foreign Students
I’m sure everyone has heard the story of the friend of a friend from X country at X university in China, and the story is so remarkable you almost don’t believe it. Here are a couple I’ve picked up from different people, I don’t know if they are true or not. They are both very [...]
Flash Dancing
It’s fairly common knowledge that Chinese people like to perform. If you ever go to a school “dance” in China, you will sit in the audience and watch people perform on stage. The other day I was walking on the busiest shopping street in Qingdao, when I witnessed another kind of performance, Chinese “flash” 快闪 dancing.
Apparently these [...]
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