I recently caught this article in my CBC news feed and it got me thinking about what the Chinese call “snake heads“. They are so named for ‘leading/heading’ groups of “rénshé” into other countries. Rénshé is the slang for those Chinese that slither across borders into other countries illegally. Poetic language, Chinese is. Snake heads [...]
Chinese Culture Posts
Back To The Future
Ah, Back To The Future. Great Scott did I ever ponder the title of that movie when I was a kid! It completely threw me for a loop. I’d just get to sorting out the direction it was pointing me when I’d hit that last word and all was lost. It is fitting then that [...]
Born To Ride – The Bus
I live in Suzhou, and as such am well accustomed to the pain-in-the-assedness of the seething swarms of scooters that buzz about the city, apparently oblivious to my peripatetic situation. These things are everywhere, and have more than once jutted in front of busses I’ve been on, causing the passengers in the back to intimately [...]
Standing In Doorways
I’ve decided that years of having really crap State-controlled TV has taken a huge toll on the populous population of China. It has caused near all 1.3 billion inhabitants of the PRC to view the world around them as nothing but an uncontrollable, intangible source of entertainment. It would seem to me that a numbness [...]
My Dog’s Erection Points To A Flawed Chinese Sex-Ed System?
About 2 months ago, me and my girlfriend got a dog – don’t ask me why, that’s another story. His name is Pepe. “Pepe Q-tip” to be exact, due to the fact that it looks like it’d be really easy to clean your ears with him. Anyway, to get to the point, it seems that [...]
Review: Foreign Babes In Beijing
I just finished reading Rachel Dewoskin’s Foreign Babes In Beijing, a memoir of the author’s life in China’s capital during the mid to late 90s. For any just coming to or arriving in China, the book is a great supplemental read to your standard collection of guidebooks; and for those of us that have been [...]
National Day: From Mao ‘Til Now
The barrage of fireworks-caused explosions rattling my windows shook me from my DVD-induced daze and reminded me that today is Chinese National Day. 57 years ago today the Central People’s Government announced the official creation of the People’s Republic of China. China’s continually in the news regarding their “troubles” with environmental issues, social unrest, and [...]
