If you’ve gotten your paws on an iPhone or an iPod Touch, you’ve likely added lots of useful apps to it. You might, however, have overlooked the fact that there are lots of apps – many by Chinese developers – that you can use daily to help find your way around, speak the language, or get information.
I’ve chosen 10 China-relevant apps, most of which are free
I’ve been home in Canada for a little more than a week, and am already beginning to rub up against the things that run different from my laowai life in China. And while we’ve covered this topic a few times on the blog, I felt like using this post as an opportunity to reach out [...]
Another great photo from Beijing-based photographer Zhao Hua Xi Shi, previously “Elephant on a Bicycle”. I encourage everyone to browse through this talented self-taught photographer’s photostream. The photos do an amazing job of telling intricate and intriguing stories that show the complex mosaic of modern China.
Having just returned from Beijing myself, this image of a Beijing Hutong marked with “拆“, which essentially means “to destroy” was especially poignant. Yet another great capture from regular Lost Laowai Flickr pool submitter Elephantonabicycle.
“Shameless” Zhang Zi Yi unwittingly volunteered to be China’s first web scandal of 2009 when an intrusive long-lens paparazzo snapped the Chinese actress and her western boyfriend playfully cavorting on the beach. Many sites and netizens were outraged at her being ‘nude’, though technically she wasn’t, while other netizens in this country jumped on the [...]
Rolling into Shanghai’s People’s Square last Sunday, New Zealander Rob Thomson was met with surprisingly little fanfare. No media to greet him, no friends or family to congratulate him. A lonesome end to an amazing journey.
The random Chinese man he asked to take his photo to mark the moment had no idea that Thomson has just completed a world record breaking odyssey. He had, in the course of 462 days, travelled an amazing 12,000 km solo and unassisted across Europe, North America, and China on a longboard skateboard.
Now relaxing for a few days in Shanghai before heading back to his native New Zealand, Rob was kind enough to field some questions for Lost Laowai.
I recently spent four days in Hong Kong as the final stop of a brief Southeast Asian trip, and as usual I found the language situation there somewhat mystifying. Hong Kong, as we know, has three official languages: Cantonese, Mandarin, and English. Because I don’t speak the former, I was reliant on the latter two [...]
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