China bloggers unite! The China Blog Network has arrived.
In an effort to tie together all us sinobloggers, we’re launching the China Blog Network, a (appropriately enough) network of China blogs that all link together in a ring-around-the-rosie style (we’re praying we don’t all fall down).
Though most of us link to each other through our blogrolls, I thought it might be more convenient, and fun, to have a method by which we can create an actual blogging network, whereby we can explore new related blogs and show a bit of solidarity for our blogging niche.
Membership to the network is free, but limited to blogs about China. …
China wouldn’t be my first guess of places American lawmakers would look for legislative ideas. But Mashable points to a proposed law in Kentucky that would make it illegal for websites to allow anonymous comments and fine site owners $500 for the first offense. Tim Couch, the state representative who sponsored the bill, says it’s necessary to fight “online bullying,” according to WTVQ in Lexington.
The bill would require anyone who contributes to a website to register their real name, address and e-mail address with that site.
Their full name would be used anytime a comment is posted.
If the bill becomes law, the website operator would have to pay if someone was allowed to post anonymously on their site. The …
Chinese skills that develop so quickly it’s like they’re on steroids. Reading essays that provide a glimpse into this strange country. Blossoming friendships with students named Gorge, Pudding, and Glenn Chestnut.
Oh, the glamorous life I led in my head before I actually started teaching.
If you’re like me or several of my friends, and your newfound teaching gig in China is the first time you’ve stepped in front of the classroom, you’ve probably gotten your hands on a copy of Peter Hessler’s Rivertown. While I would suggest this beautifully written book as good background reading, it only does a somewhat decent job preparing you for what lays ahead.
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According to The New York Times, some Chinese officials are now requiring party cadres to submit to sobriety tests in the afternoons in an effort to curtail baijiu-soaked “liquid lunches”. The reasoning behind the measure is sound- these lunches are paid for by the public purse, and having a large amount of government officials spending the afternoons drunk doesn’t exactly inspire much confidence in Communist Party competence.
I doubt very many foreigners will shed a tear if baijiu becomes less prevalent in formal Chinese settings. All of us have a story of being invited to such a lunch, forced to eat an assortment of bizarre and unappetizing food, and subjected to round after round of baijiu toasts. I learned to …
Well maybe he wasn’t the only inspiration for British uberspy James Bond, but Peter Fleming certainly was one crazy laowai.
Peter Fleming was the older brother of Bond’s creator, Ian Fleming and one of the best known travel writers of 1930s England. A very rich adventure writer, the Flemings came from an important banking family and Peter was considered so “posh” that he was unable to get a job at the BBC because he had too much of an upper-crust British accent. Fleming first became famous for a book he wrote called Brazilian Adventure about his trip across Brazil to find the lost expedition of Col. Percy Fawcett.
After the success of Brazilian …
Hello all - this is Matt signing in. Perhaps, like me, you’re beginning a new semester studying Chinese, or else you’re wondering whether or not you should start. That’s the easy part- go for it! Whether you’re living and working in China or are planning to do so at some point, learning Chinese will give you an invaluable window into this maddening, beguiling, enormous, and amazing country.
So, let’s say you’ve decided to learn the language. Great! But before you begin (or even if you already have), I’d like to impart a few suggestions on top of what Tam recently contributed. In particular, here are a few pointers in the form of fallacies that you should avoid if you …
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