– Anyone active in the China blogsphere back in August surely remembers Chinabounder and his rather conspicuous blog “Sex And Shanghai“. The blog received some rather heated attention (making it as far as the nightly news in Shanghai) mostly brought on by Professor Zhang Jiehai and his call to hunt down the author because of the … Read More »
– A couple days ago Danwei and Imagethief both had good posts that gave a couple varying opinions on the recent increase in attention to the Starbucks in the Forbidden City. The issue has been recently stirred up by CCTV anchorman Rui Chenggang and his call for Starbucks to get out and stay out of one … Read More »
– I recently caught this article in my CBC news feed and it got me thinking about what the Chinese call “snake heads“. They are so named for ‘leading/heading’ groups of “rénshé” into other countries. Rénshé is the slang for those Chinese that slither across borders into other countries illegally. Poetic language, Chinese is. Snake heads … Read More »
– Hey you. Yeah, you with the chopstick cramped hands, belly full of Gong Bao Ji Ding and a cough that just wont go away. We’re looking for a few people with a unique voice and solid relationship with their keyboard to help us fill this space with more than just requests for writers. Now that … Read More »
– It would seem that it’s becoming more and more popular to mine your stat programs for blog topics, and we’d be remiss here at Lost Laowai if we didn’t do the same. Now I’m not going to go on and on about how our number of visitors have doubled in three months (yep… went from … Read More »
– www.HaoHaoReport.com Right, so my little birdy’s left the nest. I’ve just finished moving the Hao Hao Report into its very own domain – www.haohaoreport.com. I’m going to miss having the guy around here, but I’ll visit often… and so should you 😉 The Hao Hao Report, for those just stumbling upon this blog, is a … Read More »
– Ah, Back To The Future. Great Scott did I ever ponder the title of that movie when I was a kid! It completely threw me for a loop. I’d just get to sorting out the direction it was pointing me when I’d hit that last word and all was lost. It is fitting then that … Read More »
– I live in Suzhou, and as such am well accustomed to the pain-in-the-assedness of the seething swarms of scooters that buzz about the city, apparently oblivious to my peripatetic situation. These things are everywhere, and have more than once jutted in front of busses I’ve been on, causing the passengers in the back to intimately … Read More »
– With a mere 610 days to go, the 2008 Beijing Olympics are quickly approaching. The nearer they get, the more displaced people can be found wandering around the city wondering where their neighborhood went. Well folks, always eager to utilize form and function, us here at LLW have discovered the solution: Mr. McGroovy’s Box Rivets. … Read More »
– It would seem we go in phases here at Lost Laowai. We get heated posts about people being beaten, then we move into nerdier territory with computer stuff. Well, I’d just like to say – BRING ON THE LOVE. At Lost Laowai, love is in the air. It’s months before Valentine’s Day, and months since … Read More »
– UPDATE August 23/09: While some of these may still work, if you are in China for any length of time, we recommend getting yourself hooked up with a Virtual Private Network (VPN). For a super-fast and versatile solution, check out WiTopia. If their inexpensive yearly fee is too much for you, give the ad-supported (but … Read More »
– Now, I’ve said my share of curses towards the lead footed (both gas and break) drivers of the over-stuffed death-traps that are China’s transit system, but man … some days it just doesn’t pay to ask for correct change… Basically, the story goes… two dudes and their tight-panted tag-along get on a bus in Wuhan … Read More »
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