Ryan's called China home for over eight years now. A short time to some, a long time to others, for him it's just right.
In addition to creating Lost Laowai, he also runs Hao Hao Report and China Blog Network.
Popular Beijing-based blog Beijing Cream has just released the inaugural episode of The Creamcast, a weekly podcast hosted by John Artman and The Good Doctor.
The podcast's first guest is long-time China expat Frank Yu, founder of Chinese start-up Kwestr. The format is very much unstructured and conversational, and will remind most of a typical night out with a group of foreigners shooting the shit about living in…
I caught a link to this video in Bill Bishop's excellent Sinocism newsletter today. The video was published back in 2010 by the Asia Society, and shows Nicholas Platt giving a voice over description of several minutes of home movies he shot in 1972 Beijing, just after the US and China resumed diplomatic relations.
It's interesting that while a lot has certainly changed in Beijing over the last 40 years, a lot …
Credit to Beijing Cream for introducing me to the The 党 Dynasty, westside China's latest laowai talent. Made up of friends Bro西来 (Matt Allen) and 他马特老外 (Matt Sheehan), the duo produced the following "We livin in Xi'an" video, which is as ridiculous as it is fun.
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Straight off the streets of Xi'an, bilingual rap duo The 党 Dynasty lay down the hottest bilingual club thumper to come out of Xi'an since th…
Kellen Parker, who has both been featured on and contributed to Lost Laowai over the years, is spearheading a new project called Phonemica, which aims to "record spoken stories in every one of the thousands of varieties of Chinese in order to preserve both stories and language for future generations."
We're a small group of linguists (and a growing group of volunteers) that believe that there is tremendous val…
The bad laowai category on Lost Laowai has grown a bit dusty over the past year or so, as I questioned whether it was a good idea to lend attention to a very small section of the foreigner crowd who were behaving badly in public (and becoming Youku stars for their efforts).
It appeared for a while that the Chinese, and more relevantly, the Chinese government, were weighing these autonomous events with more mass th…
The Sinica Podcast just celebrated its 3rd anniversary in April. Can you take us back and explain how it came into being?
Kaiser: It started with a casual conversation between Jeremy and me in the spring of 2010 about how there weren't many good China-related podcasts. I can't find the time to blog regularly, but at the same time, I felt a need to participate in the conversation about China, and a podcast seemed…
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I remember when I first purchased an e-bike 5 years or so ago, it had been a while since I'd been on any sort of bike, let alone a motorized one. There really is a certain amount of trial by fire when buying a bike in China, with most bike shops deep in urban centres; hell, most of China is an urban centre. So I do sympathize with this fellow to an extent ... like…
I was pretty eager to sit down and watch "Seeking Asian Female", Debbie Lam's new documentary exploring 'Yellow Fever'. I've always been a bit skeptical about the whole Asian fetish thing, and, admittedly, a bit defensive about it -- my wife is Asian and I'm Caucasian.
I suppose the thing that gets my back up is the hinted presumption that all white people with Asian partners are somehow suffering from a fetish. O…
Richard Brubaker recently wrote a poignant piece at All Roads Lead to China called "When the Ambulance Doesn't Come", in which he talks about the recent heart-breaking story of a 3-year-old British boy in Shanghai who died from injuries sustained when a partition at a restaurant fell on him.
Though the mother and restaurant owner rushed the boy to the nearest hospital, they were told by a security guard that t…
I'm not sure if it's fitting or unseemly that I should be posting this today, April 20th, but here we are. A couple years back I remember reading about a foreigner who spent seven months in a Chinese jail. Other than a passing, "man that sucks," I didn't think much more about it. I certainly didn't think it was anyone I *knew* (however loose I can use that term).
It wasn't until I stumbled across a recent The …
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