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World Expo Shanghai 2010 Pavilions – Some Favourites

In less than two months the 2010 Shanghai World Expo will start its six-month run. As I’m slowly catching Expo Fever, I thought I’d run through a few of my favourite pavilions, comparing and contrasting what the official word on the structure is with my amateur thoughts and opinions.

This list is by no means a complete list of pavilions or “good” pavilions. Rather, it is a list of the pavilions that stuck out to me in my random browsing of the Internet and the official World Expo Shanghai 2010 Web site.

24 hours / 24 photos — Spring Festival in Liuzhou

Liuzhou, China over one 24 hour period: 08:01:25 PM

Liuzhou, China over one 24 hour period: 08:01:25 PM

Michael Steverson, better known as “Expatriate Games” in the blogsphere and on Flickr, has put together an awesome project entitled “Xin Nian Hao – 24 Hours in Liuzhou“. The series of photos and accompanying stories chronicle an entire day (one photo an hour) over CNYE and into the early morning hours of the first day of the new lunar year.

Chun Jie: The Next Generation

Chinese New Year: Fu Dao LeI really like Spring Festival. Honestly. Every year I hear the arguments about the “crazy Chinese and their crazy fireworks”, but despite the noise (and limb-losing danger) I have to admit that I get a bit caught up in the season.

I suppose I’ve not been here long enough yet to truly understand what that holiday feeling is, certainly not to the extent my wife and her compatriots do. Being home for the Christmas season this past December, I saw this in reverse. My wife likes Christmas; she liked the food, the gifts and the family visits (mostly the first two). But I don’t think she can really understand that “Christmas feeling” like those who have grown up in the culture do. That feeling, even at my rather ripe age and lack of religious penchants, that something magical happens between Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning.

But even with the limits of cultural comprehension; by comparison, I think we can all get the significance of what this season brings. That warm feeling of family, a great connect that spans generations. For the young, a chance to get a bit of cash and some new clothes; for the old, an opportunity to look back and see how life and family has changed over the years.

2010: The Year China Makes Contact?

Happy New Year from everyone here at Lost Laowai. Another year over and a new one just begun. Here’s to hoping that 2010 reverses what has been a terrible year for Internet openness in China.
My New Year’s Resolution is to spend eight minutes each day sending positive mental messages to the switch flickers in Beijing [...]

World AIDS Day Flash Mob in Changchun

Things have been quiet around Lost Laowai lately, and apologies for that. I’m hard at work on a redesign of the site, and so haven’t had much time to contribute. The redesign is nearly finished though, so hopefully regular posting will resume soon.
I just caught this video on Youku of a flash mob performance piece [...]

Giving Thanks To China

Today is a special day in Northern North America, Canadian Thanksgiving.  While it is (not surprisingly) less of a big deal for us than it will be in about six weeks for our neighbours to the south, it is still an important day on the calendar.  While I won’t be heading to mom’s for a big feast, it doesn’t mean that I’m not thankful for several things.  And since this is a blog centred around life in China, I thought that I would take a minute or two to make a list of things that I would like to thank China for.  I would love to here what any of you out there in Comment Land have to add to this list.

So in no particular order, I would like to give Chin a big thanks for….

350 Day of Climate Action coming to China

On October 24, 2009, relatively small groups of people around the world will create an action that helps to raise awareness about the 350 International Day of Climate Action, and with a long list of events taking part across the country, China’s no exception.
If you’re like me and are wondering what the heck the whole [...]

Video: The eclipse us Suzhou/Shanghai folks missed

This video is for everyone (like myself) who watched, through useless eclipse glasses, the clouds and rain go totally dark at 9:30am today.
[UPDATE 11:41] – It seems the video I originally posted is actually from a 2008 eclipse, and not today’s (as indicated in the video’s title). Apologies. I’m still looking for a video.
[UPDATE 11:49] [...]

Haibao pushing stereotypes for World Expo 2010?

I caught wind of these “multicultural” Haibao images on the blog of James Fallows, and couldn’t help but feel they’re a bit… well… ummm… insensitive. I would like to think that I am one of the least politically correct people out there, and I groan even approaching the topic. Perhaps it’s just that in my [...]

Burn After Seeing

With the fateful anniversary just less than two weeks away, it’s not surprising that the sino-blogsphere is filling up with posts about . It’s difficult not to comment on it. It’s hard to not feel a bit like there is a necessity to address what has now lain silent for two decades.
The tragedy of the [...]

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