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.
on Youku
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…
Begin watching in the top right of the screen.
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…
This week FluentU (who changed their name from Fluent Fix - which personally, I liked a bit more) announced that they now have over 300 videos available for Chinese study on their site. 308, at the moment actually, and more all the time. Congratulations to the FluentU team on all that hard work!
But what's FluentU anyway, you ask? In their own words:
"FluentU is a new way to learn Chinese through authentic vi…
Yet another for our "Bad Laowai" category.
From Shanghaiist:
A video now going viral on iFeng.com shows a white blonde male putting his feet over the seat before him and a Chinese female passenger's head on a train from Shenyang to Beijing. It is not clear what happened before the start of this video, but the woman was clearly irritated by the man's behavior. She stood up, turned around, and hit the man's f…
Some days it just feels like this:
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Title really says it all. As monster cities go, Shanghai has got to be one of my favourites -- this video is a nice tribute to her.
h/t to Jeffry J Davis.…
Nearly a year ago I posted about a documentary film being made by ChinaGeek's founder (and one-time Lost Laowai contributor), Charlie Custer.
The film, now titled Living With Dead Hearts, explores the issue of kidnapped children in China and how it affects the parents, the children and the whole community. And it needs your help to finish being made.
Earlier this week on his blog Imagethief, Will Moss wrote a p…
This is just all sorts of awesome. Created by the 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors (bio below), the video delivers what's on the box -- the (abridged) history of China in 3 1/2 minutes.
Sorry, no non-Youtube version for all you non-VPNers (does anyone not have a VPN these days?)
18MMW Bio
Quite possibly the world's most psychotic Asian American Theatrical Comedy group, the Warriors have been together since 1994…
Some Gems:
"Chinese people need to learn brains."
"It's 2011. Chairman Mao is dead."
And the kicker:
"See, I'm Canadian, I don't have to shut up. Chinese people have to shut up. Canada people [sic] don't have to shut up."
Couldn't be prouder to be a Canadian [shakes head]. Granted, I've no idea what happened before the video started capturing the argument, but JTFC that b'ys gone off, eh!?
I feel for …
Caught these two videos during my rounds today.
The first comes from the Shanghaiist and shows why China should never trust a Russian screen their ESL teachers:
Shanghaiist reader (and tipster), Alexander, explains why appending English phrases with "BLYA" makes videos of Chinese kids viral in Russia:
On this video Laowai-teacher (maybe from Russia) teaches Chinese kids English. She wrote on the blackboa…
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