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7 Lost Laowai Links

There’s a blogging meme circling called “My 7 Links”. The premise, conceived by TripBase, is simple: get nominated, select seven links from your archives that fit into the group writing project’s seven categories, and then nominate up to five others.

I was nominated by Charlie at Chengdu Living, and am happy to oblige. I think most bloggers would agree that we tend to post it and forget it, and it’s nice to have the opportunity to stop and take a look back at things we’ve produced (warts and all). Charlie nominated “Ryan at Lost Laowai”.

As a good deal of my blogging (some 900+ posts) resides at my personal blog, and a large share of the approximately 600 posts here at Lost Laowai are not mine at all, I was not sure how best to tackle the selection. Ultimately, I decided to limit my choices to all posts here at Lost Laowai, mine or not (and most below are not).

The 500th Post

This post represents a bit of a milestone here at Lost Laowai, as it is (if the title didn’t give it away) our 500th one.

The first post on Lost Laowai was back in September 2006, and we’ve averaged about 2 posts a week in the 3.5 years since.

Going off visitation alone, the most popular post in that time (and we take little pride in this) was “Zhang Ziyi nude on a beach” (due, in no small part to the fact that we’re high up in the Google results for “zhang ziyi nude“). Ironically, the post’s single (clothed) picture of Zhang has surely disappointed many a one-handed browser.

A better testament to post popularity, in my opinion, is found by taking a look at the posts that have garnered the most conversation over the years. Here are Lost Laowai’s top 10 posts based on comment count — which currently totals about 4,600:

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