For those of you who have been in China know that “Hello! Where are you from?†is not an uncommon thing to hear from a complete stranger. However, last weekend while I was on vacation in Qingdao I was asked this in a rather uncommon way, that has got me thinking a rather uncommon thought.Read More
I read with interest last week that the new X-Men film, “X-Men Origins: Wolverine“, had been leaked online by somebody close to the production. I was interested because I figured it was only a matter of time before my local DVD shop would have a copy. Sure enough, after a nice meal out with the …Read More
I’m not entirely sure why it’s “nine” women, and not 10, or five, or 20 – but whatever the reason, Complex.com has come out with their list of “The 9 Hottest Chinese Women“. No huge surprises really, other than perhaps the fact that five of the women on the list are over 30 (including the …Read More
It’s the Irresistible Force meets the Immovable Object. Apple, the Californian electronics firm, and China Mobile, the state-owned telecommunications giant, have been locked in a slow, secretive, yet embittered year-long struggle to release and control Apple’s iPhone in mainland China. By “control†I refer to both revenue from user contracts/subscriptions, as well as to the …Read More
An American group by the name of the National Labor Committee (NLC) has just released a shocking in-depth report on working and living conditions for factory workers in one particular ‘hi-tech’ plant in Dongguan, southern China, which makes computer keyboards for Lenovo, HP, Dell, IBM, and Microsoft. The deeply alarming report was compiled after months …Read More
We have come for various reasons, in a variety of guises from different places, with the educations and habits of our homelands as guides in our judgment of the world. We interpret what we find here, in the peerless republic of China, according to standards and assumptions formed in distant cauldrons of human experience and …Read More
It is said that an individual’s fears can be seen in what they spend their life avoiding and evading. As for governments, their fears are exposed in what they censor, and yesterday’s Inauguration speech by the new US president Barack Obama (wow, it feels good to type that for the first time ever) seems to …Read More
According to an article at Caijing, Shanghai’s rapid development may be causing the city to sink into the sea. Built on what is largely sandy marshland, according to the Shanghai Institute of Geology, the city has sunk more than two metres in the past 40 years. This sinking is believed to be connected to the …Read More
Wokai, or “I start”, is a new(ish) Web site offering microfinancing to China’s poor. There are few things that make me tingle like the principle of microfinancing does. I’d like to think I have a philanthropist’s heart (if not the wallet), and as much as I believe “give it and forget it” charities unarguably do …Read More
Shanghai, and mainland China as a whole, got an economic vote of confidence from two fluffy sources this week: Disney and Barbie. News was announced that a Disneyland in Shanghai is likely to be approved this year, and the world’s biggest official Barbie store is finally ready to open in the city. The two American …Read More
“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
In what, shamelessly, promises to be one of the most popular posts here at Lost Laowai, Zhang Ziyi‘s itty bitty titties have popped up and are on display across the Inter web this week – with postings at Tianya, Netease and an 80+ image set at X17 Galleries (seemingly blocked in China). The photos show the …Read More
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