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249 posts by Ryan:

2010

• Feb 09 Photo: Kunming side-street fashion show
• Jan 28 Two knives, a whole lot of Red Bull and one messed up dude
• Jan 25 There’s something happening here…
• Jan 13 Hong Huang tells laowai, ‘don’t assume you can be one of us’
• Jan 06 Video: Peter Hessler on China’s Past and Present
• Jan 01 2010: The Year China Makes Contact?

2009

• Dec 29 Karate Kid or Kungfu Kid in Beijing
• Dec 15 Laowai homecoming — mass-transit misery
• Dec 02 World AIDS Day Flash Mob in Changchun
• Nov 04 Tan’s Traffic Talk Show
• Oct 12 350 Day of Climate Action coming to China
• Oct 05 Oli, the world’s first Blogstar, really.
• Oct 02 Absolutely amazing PRC 60th anniversary parade video
• Sep 21 A Good Dog Couple – 好一对狗男女
• Sep 09 Save Money, Die Better
• Aug 07 Chinese artist takes ‘blending in’ to a new level
• Aug 05 Time for the Associated Press to buy a decent map
• Aug 02 Plague Strikes Qinghai: Glen has sniffles.
• Jul 22 Video: The eclipse us Suzhou/Shanghai folks missed
• Jul 14 Haibao pushing stereotypes for World Expo 2010?
• Jul 07 Block Block Block, Blockity Block
• Jun 06 Crazy bus fire in Chengdu
• Jun 04 SixFour Thoughts
• Jun 02 Twitter & Flickr blocked ahead of Tiananmen’s 20th
• May 29 Lost Laowai gets comic-ized
• May 22 Burn After Seeing
• May 12 Afterquake — music to remind us that help is still needed
• May 10 Forget flowers, give a real gift for Mother’s Day
• May 06 Cunningham reliving Tiananmen in new book
• Apr 23 Photos: RedStar Motel 五星招待所
• Apr 09 Things never to trust in China – Meursault returns!
• Apr 07 Sack this!
• Apr 06 X-Men Origins in theatres next month, on DVD in China now
• Apr 01 China gives Taiwan fake pandas
• Mar 29 China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson heating up Spanish poll
• Mar 26 Traditional media losing the plot
• Mar 18 China wants Chinese product importers to pay for her pollution
• Mar 12 Complex’s 9 Hottest Chinese Women
• Mar 09 Photo: Girl Shopping in Nanning
• Mar 05 YouTube Blocked Ahead of Tibetan Anniversary
• Mar 02 What to do when your Chinese ex-wife runs away with your child?
• Feb 25 SXSWShanghai @ M1NT this Saturday
• Feb 23 Wikipedia calls CCTV’s Yang Rui a “little biatch”
• Feb 09 Fire in The Boot – Pants OK
• Feb 08 Would the real Chris Devonshire-Ellis please stand up
• Jan 30 Laowai Interview: Richard Burger of The Peking Duck
• Jan 24 Grow Up China
• Jan 20 I’m QQ – wait, no I’m not.
• Jan 18 Shanghai is sinkin’ man, and I don’t wanna swim
• Jan 16 Empowering the impoverished with Wokai
• Jan 12 Photo of the Week: Winter Swim
• Jan 08 Laowai Interview: David Wolf of Silicon Hutong
• Jan 05 Zhang Ziyi nude on a beach
• Jan 03 Canadian Ani Ashekian Missing in Hong Kong
• Jan 01 Happy New Year Laowai!

2008

• Dec 25 US-made Optima dog food killing dogs in China
• Dec 18 Laowai Interview: John Pasden of Sinosplice/ChinesePod
• Dec 16 Photo of the Week: Taking a Break
• Dec 15 LLW on the move…
• Dec 13 China public holidays for 2009
• Dec 08 Help keep Sichuan warm this winter
• Dec 03 A foreigner’s perspective with Steven Weathers
• Dec 03 Vote for Lost Laowai in 2008 China Blog Awards
• Nov 27 The Onion tells us how great law in China is
• Nov 25 2008 China Blog Awards about to begin
• Nov 19 Roland Soong’s Undelivered Speech
• Nov 08 You buying the Angry Expat Ideology?
• Oct 31 See the net through red-coloured glasses
• Oct 29 Ladies of Neocha – Tomorrow’s Afternoon Tea
• Oct 24 Is it ultra-Nationalistic Jap hating time again already?
• Oct 23 The Empire Strikes Back – MS games pirated Chinese PCs
• Oct 16 Can’t we just call it chuar?
• Oct 14 Tighter reigns, business as usual, or lost in translation?
• Oct 04 Skateboarding from Switzerland to Shanghai
• Oct 03 Chinese Skype privacy breech
• Sep 30 Photo of the Week: Hammer To Fall
• Sep 22 Lost Laowai Blog Address Update
• Sep 20 What is melamine? Is it in my milk?
• Sep 18 US Dept of Commerce: Sichuan Earthquake Relief Webinar
• Sep 17 Mind Sports coming to Beijing
• Sep 15 Photo of the Week: People of the Island
• Sep 05 Compare and Contrast
• Aug 29 Got Chinese legal questions? New site gives free answers
• Aug 28 When did China get so damn cool?
• Aug 25 Beijing 2008 Olympics – In Pictures
• Aug 24 Protesters play secret agents
• Aug 18 Shocker: Liu Xiang quits Olympic match
• Aug 16 Photo of the Week: From the hutongs to the horizon
• Aug 15 Pomfret gives China a break
• Aug 14 The 21 edicts from the Chinese government’s propaganda unit
• Aug 09 BBC’s Cool Gorillaz’ Monkey Olympics Video
• Aug 08 #080808 – An Olympic-sized Twitter Meme
• Aug 06 Photo of the Week: Chinese Olympic Cheerleaders
• Aug 05 While protesting in the park, stop and smell the 100 flowers
• Aug 02 Chinese too classless to dress themselves, officials say
• Jul 28 Help a Harvard student, win a trip to Sanya
• Jul 26 Olympic fashion (non)sense
• Jul 24 Photo of the Week: Daily Gongfu
• Jul 19 ChinaSMACK in your veins or on your face, it’s sure to affect and offend
• Jul 18 A sober discussion about the Olympics
• Jul 14 Chinabounder returns, identity revealed?
• Jul 09 What’s with the Shanghai Taxi Roundup?
• Jul 03 ChinesePod releases Chinese Olympics guide
• Jul 02 Photo of the Week: Do & Me
• Jun 26 Lost Laowai Celebrates 2nd Birthday
• Jun 26 British Embassy in China Eager To Locate You
• Jun 18 Bikini-clad Chinese girls show off their … Olympic spirit
• Jun 17 Looking for good independent Chinese music? Neocha delivers
• Jun 16 Photo of the Week: A Beautiful Landscape
• Jun 13 Time Out tangled in twisted web of Chinese regulations
• Jun 03 Photo of the Week: The Stare
• May 29 Social(ism) Network – Wen Jia Bao on Facebook
• May 19 Moment of Silence, Period of Mourning
• May 18 Photo of the Week: Life’s a Beach
• May 15 Bombing on the Shanghai Subway?
• May 15 Add a Quake Relief Donation badge to your blog/site
• May 13 [Updated] Earthquake hits Sichuan, please share your experiences
• May 06 Boomtown Beijing – A coversation with Tan Siok Siok
• Apr 27 QQ&A: Han Han holds hope
• Apr 19 Carrefour needs catchy mobile meme
• Apr 16 Sports + Politics = No French Bread
• Apr 14 ‘My money’s on China’, Some Grey Bloke
• Apr 09 Photo of the Week: Medicine No Fakes
• Apr 07 China’s multiple entry visas cut off until after Olympics
• Apr 04 Chinese netizens strike blow at Western media ethics
• Apr 03 So, this is subversion?
• Apr 01 Beijing, Dalai Lama reconcile
• Mar 29 Access Flickr (in China) Upgrade
• Mar 25 China Celebrates Its Status As World’s Number One Air Polluter
• Mar 25 YouTube’s Back, with BBC News thrown in too
• Mar 22 Help a Laowai Win In China
• Mar 16 Troubles in China’s Wild West
• Mar 14 Communist Tax Lawyer – Clever Socialist Spam
• Mar 13 The China Blog Network
• Feb 27 A fabricated frolic into folly
• Feb 26 Getting the basics on Baidu
• Feb 24 Great Firewall of China: Explained
• Feb 22 We’re looking for a few good Laowai
• Feb 18 ChinesePod hits the big time
• Feb 15 The Great Firewall of N. America?
• Feb 13 Sportplomacy, as stupid as it sounds
• Feb 11 LLW’s Rick on the radio
• Feb 06 Chinese New Year – the Beast is upon us
• Feb 04 Photo of the Week: Feeling Ratty
• Jan 27 Freezin’ your laowai ass off? Tips for staying warm
• Jan 22 Report says China still poor and no threat to America
• Jan 21 Mind the gap this Spring Festival
• Jan 20 Photo of the Week: Things to Come
• Jan 19 Bloggers put “An” back in Tianmen
• Jan 15 Chinese Zoos – Animal Cruelty or Cultural Ambiguity?
• Jan 12 Book Review: China – People Place Culture History
• Jan 03 HHR Back Online

2007

• Dec 31 Photo of the Week: Fake Documents
• Dec 24 We’ve got an HHR down!
• Dec 13 Nanjing – Listen up and put it to bed
• Dec 11 Give a gift, help make a difference to Chinese children
• Dec 09 Photo of the Week: Beautiful Jiuzhaigou
• Nov 25 One Restaurant, Two Menus
• Nov 23 Photo of the Week: Hanging Around
• Nov 14 Ribbed hair bands, for her pleasure
• Nov 12 Photo of the Week: Puppies and Booze
• Nov 09 Research says Yellow Fever just a myth
• Nov 04 Hot Chinese chicks wanted for Olympics
• Oct 31 Happy Halloween, YouTube Unblocked!
• Oct 28 Photo of the Week: Higher Baba!
• Oct 25 Snake Oil Sensibilities
• Oct 20 Photo of the Week: Shanghai at Night
• Oct 19 HHR: More hao-looking than ever…
• Oct 12 Photo of the Week: The Poor in Macau
• Oct 10 C’mon, let him hold the Torch!
• Oct 06 Bookworms, China’s dirty textbook market
• Oct 03 China’s Stolen Children
• Oct 03 Photo of the Week: Hard Hat
• Oct 02 [GWP] China: Love It ~ Hate It wrap-up
• Sep 28 [GWP Update] China: Love It ~ Hate It
• Sep 24 [Group Writing Project] China: Love it ~ Hate it
• Sep 19 Photo of the Week: Choose your poison
• Sep 17 Feedup with Feedburner
• Sep 15 Brits Get Rich In China
• Sep 11 Photo of the Week: China Wipes Ass With ‘American Made’
• Sep 06 Wikipedia gets harmonized again
• Sep 03 CPC Blocking RSS in PRC is BS
• Sep 02 Lost Laowai Gets All Two Point Oh’d
• Aug 30 Has the GFW put out the Feedburner fire?
• Aug 25 Lost Laowai v2 Coming Soon
• Aug 19 China, rise together or raze alone
• Aug 08 2008: A Face Odyssey
• Aug 04 D’Oh! Xinhua ya bunch of pea-brained “journalists”
• Aug 02 China Blog Awards 2007: The Results Are In
• Aug 01 China’s Comments
• Jul 26 A WP plugin to get around censorship
• Jul 25 China Blog Awards 2007: Time’s running out!
• Jul 22 The convictions of truths and lies in China
• Jul 19 Free Oiwan Lam Badges
• Jul 17 Porno links rubbing HK the wrong way
• Jul 15 Starbucks gets the ‘Buck out of the Forbidden City
• Jul 12 Confucius Says: IP On Your R
• Jul 06 China Blog Awards: Please vote for us!
• Jul 03 How To Do The Asian Squat
• Jul 02 So this is what gets you blocked
• Jul 01 Shenzhen Shekou Sea World Flood
• Jun 28 Block you! You motherblocker!
• Jun 26 Lip Service For The People
• Jun 26 What comes after China?
• Jun 22 Bring on the Best of the Chinosphere – China Blog Awards 2007
• Jun 21 ‘Education is change’, so why not give some change?
• Jun 19 GWP: If I Knew Then What I Know Now – Project Closed
• Jun 17 Group Writing Project Reminder
• Jun 15 GWP: If I Knew… Update
• Jun 13 Lost Laowai One Year Old!
• Jun 12 Flickr Blues? Bash the Block
• Jun 11 Group Writing Project: If I Knew Then What I Know Now
• Jun 06 Get A Job – We’ll Help
• May 30 The Binge and Purge of Chinese Politics
• May 29 Hao Hao Report: New Look – New Features
• May 14 DisneyMainland: “Disney Is Too Far”
• May 08 Ben The Barber: Working Like A Local
• Apr 25 1.3 Billion Reasons Not To Travel During May Holiday
• Apr 23 Sending packages home? Leave out the DVDs
• Apr 21 Chinese Protester Crashes The Gates
• Apr 17 So what if the gunman was Chinese?
• Apr 14 Sub-standard Pay = Super-sized Profits
• Apr 13 Lost Laowai on Facebook.com
• Apr 10 Bullet To The Head
• Mar 26 How To Spot A Blogspot Blog (A Quick Fix)
• Mar 24 Introducing The LICtionary: a Life In China Dictionary
• Mar 18 Good Character, Bad Character
• Mar 13 Positively Annoying
• Mar 12 Active Chinese – Lazy Learners Welcome
• Mar 07 Review: War Trash
• Feb 06 The Sex Is Back: Return of Chinabounder
• Jan 22 Coffee Talk: Rui Chenggang
• Jan 14 The Grey Matter of Snake Heads
• Jan 08 Writers Wanted
• Jan 07 The Search Strings Are Frayed

2006

• Dec 24 Hao’s This For A Dot Com?
• Dec 23 Back To The Future
• Dec 11 Born To Ride – The Bus
• Dec 08 A Palace For The Paupers
• Dec 04 Love China
• Nov 28 Climbing The Wall
• Nov 23 The Beating Of A Chinese Bus Driver
• Nov 14 Standing In Doorways
• Oct 31 Review: Foreign Babes In Beijing
• Oct 16 The Hao Hao Report Upgrade
• Oct 08 Peopleless Panoramas Float My Boat
• Oct 04 Chinese Language Software
• Oct 01 National Day: From Mao ‘Til Now
• Sep 16 A Journey Of A Thousand Words…