I thought I had seen all the wacky Chinglish translations there were, but this one grabbed my attention. From Weibo, the picture has quite different ways of telling its domestic and foreign patrons how to use the urinal. For the English, it makes a rather crude joke about the size of one's member. For the Chinese however, we get 靠近一小步文明一大步 (Kàojìn yī xiǎo bù wénmíng yī dà bù); which roughly translates to "One sma…
I'm back in Canada now for the summer. While this should be easy for me after spending so much time in China, it's not. This is a strange, strange place to me. What makes it worse is that I feel like I should get it, and people around me feel like I should get it too.
Over the last week or so, I've come up with a list of questions about this strange place called "North America" that I'm hoping some of you out t…
I caught wind of these "multicultural" Haibao images on the blog of James Fallows, and couldn't help but feel they're a bit... well... ummm... insensitive. I would like to think that I am one of the least politically correct people out there, and I groan even approaching the topic. Perhaps it's just that in my time in China I've spent the collective sum of days trying to re-align misinformed Chinese about the big cou…
I've been debating with myself today about putting together a post on that topic which has the brass in Beijing with their gitch in a twitch. In truth, I'm a bit muddled on where I sit with the issue.
On one side we seem to have Western activists shaking their fists and demanding action, recognition, acknowledgement, better bumper stickers and other assorted things that activists define themselves with; and on the…
Ah, springtime in Jiangnan: fields awash in patches of yellow canola blooms...plum and cherry petals whipping around the picnickers beneath them...lovers meeting secretly before the wife gets home...
Yes, springtime is much more beautiful when it's shared with an er nai. And why not? You've got the money to keep one--rent an apartment, buy expensive gifts, and give her a handsome monthly allowance so she need not …
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