Or: “A celebration of atheism in China’s schools”
On the walls of China’s public schools you might find Karl Marx and even Friedrich Engels (an overture to more weighty propaganda to follow in later life), but you will also find images of Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin along with detailed profiles of these great men of science. These framed homages often line corridors, or take pride of place in between the windows inside classrooms, as if Einstein’s beaming face or Darwin’s fulsome beard might provide light and sunshine of their own.
It has been heartening for me to see, over the past few years, not the visages of Mao, or Lenin, or any representations …
Hey, just a quick post to remind everyone about the new Group Writing Project - China: Love It ~ Hate it. Only a couple days left (end of the day Monday submissions will be closed).
Submissions are trickling in, and a number of people have sent e-mails saying they’ll be participating, so while we wait, here are a couple of entries.
The first, from yours truly, explores the balance of love and hate in Chinese supermarkets. The second, from fellow blogger Rick, delves into a number of topics that affect expats here. And the third, from Jeremy (The China Expat) is broken into two parts as it was written in two different stages.
Give ‘em a read and don’t forget to write …
Recently I wrote a post about Racism in China, just before finding out about the Beijing Police Rounding Up and Beating of Black People at Josh’s blog. Rick also wrote a post dealing with this called Sino Xenophobia? It’s a really sad and unfortunate reality that racism exists in China, especially against black people and Japanese people. How many people in China are racist, and how racist these people are, is open to debate, but racism’s existence in China is a fact.
Knowing this, if you are or if you were black, would you come to live in China?
This is a question from a reader on the Racism in China post (clicking this will take …
In a previous entry on my own blog, I was a bit scathing about our local Water Wheel Park, but I had another look recently and I must admit I have revised my opinion.
On a hot, sunny late September day, I took the screaming yellow 144 bus to the bridge over the Yellow RIver nearest the park, and backtracked a bit to get a view of the whole thing from the bridge. It is quite a sight.
There were over 250 of these wheels on the banks of the Yellow River in Lanzhou in 1952, irrigating thousands of hectares of land. There are six pairs in operation in the park, and I reckon it takes …
So, this is where my blog begins, again. On Lost Laowai [thanks for having me] not so much because it’s what I think of myself, but because it’s what most people assume I am.
I’m just telling it like it is. Life in China. MY life in China.
Last Sunday began way too early, with a praying mantis in my bathroom, a very large praying mantis, and a summons to appear with the other new foreign students at the sports field for a “Welcome Meeting” at 8.30am.
It was drizzling.
I stood at the back of the single row of foreign students while nearly 6000 new Chinese students filled the rest of the stadium: an astonishing number of brand new recruits into Chinese Higher …
It’s been a couple months since our first Group Writing Project, and as it was quite successful, we feel it’s time for round two. The topic this time is “China: Love It ~ Hate It”.
We’re big fans of the dao and the wacky balance therein here at Lost Laowai, and as such wanted to offer a chance for the China blogsphere to delve into the things they both love and hate most about this country.
There’s no limit on the number of things you can list, or the depth to which you explore them - however, we do ask that for every yang you have a yin (and who doesn’t like a good bit of yin?).
What …
This week’s Photo of the Week comes from talented HK photographer (and sometimes LLW writer) Derrick Chang, and was taken at the [*dem*] march in HK. Be sure to check out his site - www.maskofchina.com - for more great photos.
Every week we’ll feature a funny, interesting or otherwise noteworthy photo here. If you have a photo you think might make a good Photo of the Week, throw it in the pool at the Lost Laowai flickr Group and if you’ve got a great caption for it, send that to us as well.
Would you like to provide something useful to your readers? Would you like to have more people read what you have to say?
If so, the first thing you need to ask yourself is: What value are you providing to your readers?
If you can’t answer this question clearly & with a purpose, maybe it’s time to change, even if it’s just a little.
China bloggers: Sometimes Missing the Forest for the Trees
It’s pretty easy to see that most of the ‘easy’ topics in the China blog-o-sphere have already been done. If you have a blog about China, you probably have written about a number of such topics. Don’t beat yourself up about this, we all …
In a last ditch effort to get my feeds working again, I wrote Feedburner. Their response, despite not being what I was hoping for, was at least honest. They’ve basically given up, and so shall I.
Hello,
Unfortunately, at this time we don’t have any new information to share and any blocks you noticed a week or two ago are likely to still be in place. We’re working with Google China staff to see if any possible resolution might be available, but the only ‘workaround’ to try at this point would be something like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2864 (gladder) for potential subscribers.
We will be sure to post something in the Known Issues and Workarounds section of FeedBurner Forums should a significant update become …
A friend of mine just turned me on to a British documentary that aired on Channel 4 back in May - Brits Get Rich In China.
For anyone contemplating exploring business opportunities in China, it should not be missed. An excellent primer, it shows exactly the amount of fortitude, patience and sheer luck you need to be successful here.
The film centers around three businessmen all looking to make their fortunes in the Middle Kingdom. The retired Territorial Army officer hocking his energy saving invention; the mild mannered cushion manufacturer praying just as hard for the concrete to dry at his factory as much as he is for scoring some big orders; and Vance.
With every word out of his mouth a four-letter …
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