Mark Rowswell explains why foreigners hate Dashan

I find it unlikely that there could be a foreigner in China that doesn’t know the name Dashan, and there’s certainly no Canadians unaware of the mystical Big Mountain of Chinese. 大山 comparisons, jokes and CCTV9 Chinese lessons have been a formative staple over the course of my time in China. This past November the …Read More

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Nudity, Train Tickets, More Nudity, Rockets, and Gas: The Week in Review

“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 …Read More

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