Expats In China Don’t Need To Make Chinese Friends
Gabriel Monroe, 2006 Chili King of Beijing (Credit: the Beijinger Magazine on Flickr) If you’re an expat in China, how many local Chinese friends do you honestly have? I’m not talking about your...
View ArticleNanjing! Nanjing! Movie Excellent, Made Me Cry Like A Little Girl
“Nanjing! Nanjing!“ (aka “City of Life and Death“) is a new movie by Chinese director Lu Chuan about the Nanjing Massacre that occurred when Japanese forces overran the then-capital of China in World...
View ArticleSwine Flu & China Review: Ups & Downs With Notable Blog Posts
Source: Xinhuanet If you’re like me (a thought that surely frightens a few of you), you’re probably at least a wee bit tired of all the recent swine flu, H1N1, Influenza A news that has been...
View ArticleZhang Ziyi, Foreigners, and Chinese Sensitivities
Raymond Zhou of China Daily introduced interesting points of discussion with regards to the notable (or infamous) Chinese culturalist sensitivities. He cited career moves made by actress Zhang Ziyi as...
View ArticleShanghai Kiss: Chinese-Americans Lost In Translation
A Shanghainese friend recently let me borrow a movie called Shanghai Kiss after I expressed interest in his synopsis of it being a Chinese-American guy suddenly visiting the land of his ancestors (that...
View ArticleGreen Dam, Anti-Hui Prejudice, Chinese Politics, & Barbarism!
Weekly Review: Here are four interesting blog posts from the past week that will help you look at the censorship from an economic perspective, revisit the “racism in China” issue, have heated political...
View ArticleStories Of Han Discrimination & Prejudice In Tibet & Xinjiang
From Alec Ash’s Six, comes a post about ethnic tensions in Tibet by a Chinese university student named Tony: It is not easy to comment on Tibet. Even after a two-week trip there, I still have quite...
View ArticleForeigners Attacking Chinese Racists Reveal Their Own Racism
Racism is a problem. Stories of racism turn up all the time, in every part of the world, whether it is an African-American who dared to return to America leaving behind in Shanghai the Chinese woman he...
View ArticleEmpire State Building Honoring PRC 60th Anniversary Outrage
A little over 16 hours away from China’s painstakingly prepared and widely anticipated (by Chinese, in both instances) National Day holiday parade, celebrating the People’s Republic of China’s 60th...
View ArticleQuote: Kelly Hammond on Pepsi for China
“What does all this mean for scholars who work so hard to deflate this false conflation of westernization and modernization?” Kelly Hammond, Ph.D. candidate in Chinese History at Georgetown University,...
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