Lili

Help Out: Lili and Little Wolf

Greetings, Lost Laowai readers!

I am Little Wolf, though some of you that have been around for awhile might remember me as Lang-Lang from the old Sinocidal crew. Ryan has been kind enough to allow me to hijack his blog in order to help a little girl.

Perhaps many of you are already aware of the plight of Lili, the so-called “Guizhou furry girl”. Some weeks ago, Chinasmack.com posted her story and many readers w…

Dashan (Mark Rowswell) hosting a live broadcast for China Central Television in November 2006

Mark Rowswell explains why foreigners hate Dashan

I find it unlikely that there could be a foreigner in China that doesn't know the name Dashan, and there's certainly no Canadians unaware of the mystical Big Mountain of Chinese. 大山 comparisons, jokes and CCTV9 Chinese lessons have been a formative staple over the course of my time in China.

This past November the following question was posted on Quora: Why do so many Chinese learners seem to hate Dashan (Mark Row…

Wokai

China Charities for Christmas

It's already mid-December and although we live in China, Christmas decorations have gone up around town and the local Carrefour and RT-Mart are playing Christmas music. Christmas is a time when many people  like to give gifts to friends and family, but for expats in China it can be difficult to send gifts to whatever country (or countries!) our friends and families are living in. If you haven't sent those gifts month…

Photograph by tourist Wang Ronggui

Laowai to the rescue

I've shared more than one bone-head foreigner story on here, so it's a nice change to read a story of the opposite happening.

Thursday afternoon, upon seeing a woman drowning (allegedly an attempted suicide) in Hangzhou's West Lake, a 30-something American tourist wasted little time jumping into the famous lake and swimming to the rescue.

Shanghai Daily: A middle-aged woman jumped from the lakeside Wenshui …