Anyone active in the China blogsphere back in August surely remembers Chinabounder and his rather conspicuous blog “Sex And Shanghai“. The blog received some rather heated attention (making it as far as the nightly news in Shanghai) mostly brought on by Professor Zhang Jiehai and his call to hunt down the author because of the [...]
China Expat Rants Posts
After the Quake…
Reflections on a month spent wandering the Chinese Internet: China was hit hard about a month ago by the big Boxing Day earthquake in Taiwan, which knocked out or hindered access to most foreign websites from behind the great wall. As one Chinese acquaintance of mine put it “This is really a big inconvenience for [...]
The Grey Matter of Snake Heads
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 [...]
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 [...]
