Caught this SOOKSTV video being shared on Danwei, and felt it was well worth sharing. Very poignant mini-documentary on the difficulties faced by well-educated Chinese and their quest to find jobs that actually pay a decent wage.
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Video: Peter Hessler on China’s Past and Present
While it’s not new (but new to me), here is an interesting talk on C-SPAN by Peter Hessler, best known as the author of River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
Particularly interesting for people new to China or looking for some even-handed information on China is the Q&A period mid-way through the talk. If you don’t have much time (the whole video is nearly an hour), I suggest jumping over to the source page and checking out the chapter breakdown to cherry pick some of the more interesting questions.
Tan’s Traffic Talk Show
Ever wonder what happens when an edutaining Chengdu traffic cop runs square into China’s fēi zhǔliú culture? Well, wonder no longer. Thanks to the relatively new blog, Veggie Discourse, having subtitled this in English, we can all enjoy a gender-bending, hair-raising motorcycle safety video together: If you’re outside of China, or have a good VPN, [...]
Oli, the world’s first Blogstar, really.
Long-time China expat blogger Oli, of djod.co.uk, is taking on the task of becoming “the world’s first Blogstar” via a rather zany new webcast called (appropriately enough) Blogstar.tv. The just released first episode, Window to the West, follows Oli on his search to secure more Chinese visitors to his blog. Anyone looking for seriousness need [...]
Video: The eclipse us Suzhou/Shanghai folks missed
This video is for everyone (like myself) who watched, through useless eclipse glasses, the clouds and rain go totally dark at 9:30am today. [UPDATE 11:41] – It seems the video I originally posted is actually from a 2008 eclipse, and not today’s (as indicated in the video’s title). Apologies. I’m still looking for a video. [...]
Video: Zhapu Road
This is the first time we’ve posted a video as the “Photo of the Week” here at Lost Laowai, but watching this video it has a certain photograph’s quality about it — and hell, if Flickr can allow videos, so can we! The video comes from MK Media Productions, a relatively new and cool Shanghai-based video production company run by friend and fellow laowai Jakob Montrasio. In his words: “The Zhapu Road is north of Shanghai’s bund and full of restaurants and billboards with neon lights. You get a truly asian feeling there. It must be visited when in Shanghai, both at day and night. This video was shot in approximately 3 meter height, from a Buick Van with Steadicam. The used camera was a Sony Cinealta PMW EX1. The background music is from the japanese band Yoshida Brothers.”
China Celebrates Its Status As World’s Number One Air Polluter
With all the seriousness going on with these days, here’s a little hilarity to lighten the mood. China Celebrates Its Status As World’s Number One Air Polluter
