I’m trying to be a good citizen or resident or businesswoman or whatever you want to call me.
I figure I use the things that tax money buys. I use the roads and the street lights at night. I use the parks and the heavily subsidized public transportation.
So I figure it's only right that I ought to pay taxes.
Since avoiding paying taxes remains significantly easier than the act of actually paying taxes, I pre…
There's always "one more thing" that wasn't mentioned the first time around.
I'm in the middle of the registration process for a client's company.
Because I know the process, and because the sole reason for hiring my personal assistant Jimmy was to have someone who stands in lines, things are going much much faster for him than when I did the registration on my own -- but things aren't exactly going smoothly.
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The latest Gallup survey says that Americans are more pessimistic about their job market while Chinese are more optimistic about theirs. Therefore, it's a good time to understand the latest job trends in the Chinese job market and see if there is real reason for these results.
Trend #1 - Naked Quitting
As many as 30-40% of Chinese young people are actually leaving their jobs without finding a new position first. Th…
Because living in China didn't feel uneasy enough, a new draft law currently under review will require any foreigners staying longer than 6 months in China to have their fingerprints taken by the Entry & Exit Bureau and kept on file.
China Daily: Foreigners who stay in China for more than six months will be required to give their fingerprints to local police when applying for residence certificates, according to a…
A recent submission over at the Hao Hao Report has stirred up a bit of conversation about China's One-Child Policy (OCP) and specifically an American organization that strongly opposes it.
For most of my life the OCP debate was completely absent in my daily dialog. I don't know that I ever gave it a moment's thought before coming to China. Living here though, and watching as China-centric headlines increasingly fi…
iLook China recently ran a guest post by Lionel Carver (no idea if that's a pseudonym or not), which details the writer's experience being a guest of the government in a Chinese jail.
Subtitled with "A Cautionary Tale for Expats in China", I was curious to read both what Carver endured and, perhaps most voyeuristically, what he did to get there.
His description of the long boring days (all eight of them), spart…
I'm trying to be a good citizen or resident or businesswoman or whatever you want to call me.
I figure I use the things that tax money buys. I use the roads and the street lights at night. I use the parks and the heavily subsidized public transportation.
So I figure it's only right that I ought to pay taxes.
My tax rate really isn't all that high.
In fact, my accountant's monthly fee to file my taxes is m…
As China celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival this past week, countless gifts were exchanged by friends, families, and co-workers in homes and offices all across the country. In the days following the festival, many gifts changed hands once again, this time behind store counters and in narrow back alleys. These second exchanges were part of a twice-yearly phenomenon whose name is spelled out in a simple four-character …
I was the first of my friends to jump on the man-bag fashion-wagon. Despite the constant "murse-wearing" ribbing I took, and the defensive protests that it's not a "European carryall"; there's no denying the practicality of not having to load all your modern man-gear into your pockets.
That is to say, I'm quite open to the concept of a man with a purse-like device. Being "practical" is manly, even in heels and a d…
Usually I love living in China, thirstily drinking the kool-aid that this place is changing for the better, improving a little bit every day. Sure it has its warts, but compared to 5 years ago, 15 years ago, 35 years ago... it's definitely improving -- right?
Then Youtube gets blocked, Facebook and Twitter follow, as do pretty much all major UGC/SMS sites. Ok, ok, it's a complete pain in the ass, seems totally bac…
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