I ran across a blog post over at Dalian blogger Kim's great new spot, East-West Station, and it got me thinking.
In the post, entitled "The Years BC", Kim recounts the (often entertainment-industry induced) rather skewed knowledge he had of China before moving here last year. He shares tales of stereotypes, evil villains, kung-fu legends and the fact that in his younger years, like most of us, had no idea China wa…
In American suburbia, like the one I grew up in, new housing developments fell into two categories: those named after the streams and hills which they drained/bulldozed to develop, and those named using esoteric Celt words that sound mysterious and intoxicatingly inviting.
The apartment buildings Chinese developers are popping up makes good ol' Plum Run and Turnbrae seem low class—what Chinese city doesn't …
I've just added a brand-spankin'-new feature to Lost Laowai - A China Jobs Board! And like most job boards, it features jobs. Neat eh?
Though initially most jobs will very likely be of the ESL nature, it's by no means limited to such, and all businesses looking for laowai to fill positions in their company are welcome to post.
Companies, schools, learning centres, etc., are able to post an unlimited number of l…
Before I begin, a quick note about my last post, on How to Watch the Stanley Cup Playoffs Online. It seems as though there have been some intermittent problems, but for the most part, I think I can generalize and say it's working now. So be sure to send it along to friends who might not be aware that they have access to hockey outside of Canada.
Anyway, down the the business at hand. Today is June 1st, which ha…
While in the Shanghai Museum a month ago, I picked up a museum guide flier “Treasures in museum’s collection” which featured this instantly forgettable sentence:
“Yuan Ji (Shi Tao), Zhu Da (Bada Shanren), Kun Can (Shi Xi), and Zhan Jiang (Hong Ren) were the four monk painters of the late Ming and early Qing period.”
It’s hard enough to internalize Chinese names if you don’t know Chinese (or if you do, but the cha…
Hi, my name is Zheng Xiaoyu, and the reason I look so happy is that I've just won a no-expense paid trip to visit my ancestors.
That's right folks, I have been awarded the coveted title of 2007 Chinese Scapegoat of the Year - an honour unlike any other.
I mean, I had wished and hoped, hoped and wished, but was beginning to doubt I'd even get nominated. Now here I am, the winner!
Please don't get me wrong, it…
As many of you likely know, Lost Laowai runs a sister site, The Hao Hao Report.
HHR is a social bookmarking site for all us sinophiles that just love reading blog posts and news about China. Essentially it works the same as other social bookmarking sites (digg, netscape, del.ico.us, etc.), whereby community members submit links for everyone to vote on. If a story gets enough votes it gets promoted to the front pag…
Of all the countless things that us Canadian Laowai miss about being at home, missing the Stanley Cup Playoffs has to rank way up there -- right along side real maple syrup and Anne Murray.
Well, imagine my surprise when I saw that CBC was going to stream the playoffs live on their website.
Wow!
But then imagine my disappointment when I found out that it was only available if you're watching from inside Cana…
By now, just about all laowai should have heard of our "Harmonious Society".
The first time I saw those words was about three years ago, in Chinese, written in huge font on a billboard along the road just after the Lupu Bridge in Pudong, Shanghai. At the time the sign was an anomaly, but within the last year it's become ubiquitous.
It's on red banners. It's on billboards. It was a major theme in CCTV's 2007 Ch…
It's been pretty hot today: a reported 30 degrees Celsius (that's 86 Fahrenheit, if you prefer to count it that way), coupled with near 70% humidity that is tempered only slightly by a gentle, warm breeze.
No complaints from me whatsoever. Being from the U.K., where the number of summer days can be counted on the fingers of an individual's hands, I consider each sun-kissed day a blessing.
What's got my goat tod…
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