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- March 2010 (9)
- 11: Diary of a Worm — in Chinese! (an English / 汉字 / pīnyīn online read-along) (3)
- 11: China’s zombie growth (0)
- 09: The contents of the greatest tomb in archeological history (0)
- 05: “They hate you. But you are useful to them.” (0)
- 05: Happy Leifeng Day! (0)
- 04: In today’s urban China, “yuppie”/”petty bourgeoisie” is not necessarily a bad thing (2)
- 03: 丑闻 (0)
- 02: New Photo Gallery: Ditan Park Temple Fair (1)
- 01: Foreign baby in China essentials: FACEBOOK SUBSTITUTE (or VPN) & SKYPE (8)
- February 2010 (26)
- 28: Chinese-Western patient expectations and the differences encountered practicing medicine in Beijing (0)
- 28: Word of advice about working with Chinese hierarchy (0)
- 28: Happy Lantern Festival! (2)
- 26: 温哥华冬奥会 (0)
- 26: A Chinese, street-level view of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics (3)
- 17: It’s Spring Festival Day 5 — time to chop, pinch, stomp and explode your enemies! (2)
- 15: Foreign baby in China essentials: FRIENDLY STRANGER FINGER SHIELD (5)
- 14: Enjoying 福 (fú) and the inner circle of Chinese life (1)
- 14: How to write those ever-important CNY text messages (0)
- 12: Oh. Canada. (0)
- 12: Creative dodges around China’s ‘net filtering (0)
- 12: I pity the fú (6)
- 11: Dear Tianjin subway driver (0)
- 11: 春运 (0)
- 09: Foreign baby in China essentials: IMPORTED BABY FORMULA (14)
- 07: “If the family can’t even spend the New Year together life would be pointless.” (0)
- 07: How the hypocritical West plays into China’s hands (0)
- 05: Chinese public service announcement: Stop Bribing Everybody! (0)
- 05: Intro to the cult of Confucius (0)
- 05: Language students: recasting and common tone errors (0)
- 04: 避邪 (0)
- 04: ‘Tis the season for… RED PANTIES! (7)
- 02: A survey and analysis of the CR in contemporary Chinese art (0)
- 02: Accidentally crashing a Chinese funeral (0)
- 02: Top 10 dos and don’ts when speaking through a Chinese translator (1)
- 01: The Chinese Santa Claus (1)
- January 2010 (36)
- 28: Blog Series: Giving Birth in Chengdu (0)
- 28: Blog series: China’s rural elderly (0)
- 27: “Cats are friends, not food!” (11)
- 27: 菜狗 (0)
- 26: The modern face of China’s ancient “Chinese vs barbarian” worldview (0)
- 26: Education as a Path to Conformity (3)
- 25: Don’t eat that! You’ll get ‘wind’ in your ’stomach’! (6)
- 25: “but they were both girls, and my father-in-law gave them to foreigners” (0)
- 25: China 2013 (0)
- 22: Camilla delivery (1)
- 21: 拿拿龙 (0)
- 20: China takes “a small step toward a genuine history” (0)
- 20: ‘Four legs good, two legs better!’ and a new approach to engagement (0)
- 19: Tianjin: where jogging is bad for your health (8)
- 18: Understanding the Chinese psyche through Chinese food (1)
- 18: Spelling English with Chinese characters (1)
- 18: 裸婚 (0)
- 17: Comfort zone WMDs (0)
- 16: Beijing’s popular daily flag ceremonies (0)
- 16: Can Confucianism and Socialism be reconciled? (0)
- 13: Chinese wedding fun (5)
- 13: Yes, your e-mail content gets searched, and flowers laid outside Google’s China offices (1)
- 12: Google decides to stop being evil in China? (1)
- 12: Digital renderings of the Old Summer Palace (0)
- 12: Another day, another interesting conversation (headache) with a factory (0)
- 12: 溺爱 (1)
- 10: The Chinese family, the State and hindrances modernization (0)
- 10: Why Isaac Newton was not a Chinese (0)
- 07: A graphic look at the Chinese Hell (0)
- 07: Mainlanders see sensitive parallels to Chinese society in Avatar (0)
- 06: Nostalgic memories of old Beijing bathhouses (0)
- 06: The art of palm-greasing (0)
- 06: Famous Chinese novelist writes on the enforcement of China’s family planning policy (3)
- 05: 蠕动 (0)
- 04: Not all morning commutes are created equal (0)
- 03: Tianjin Snow! (0)
- December 2009 (27)
- 31: China’s Top 10 Crackdowns of 2009 (0)
- 31: If you build it, they won’t come (0)
- 30: 元旦快乐 (0)
- 30: If the gov owned the news… (3)
- 28: Searching for the birth-parents of adopted Chinese daughters (0)
- 25: Merry… something, from Tianjin! :) (4)
- 22: China’s grinches play hardball (0)
- 20: Merry Christmas Music 2009! (3)
- 17: A Chinese language learning essential (0)
- 16: Q&A with an American doctor who practices TCM (0)
- 16: ‘English’ name; Chinese identity (0)
- 16: The Barefoot Doctors of Rural China (0)
- 16: Want a second child? Shanghai parents: “No thanks.” (10)
- 15: 排外 (0)
- 14: China’s Changing Views on Race (0)
- 13: Free Baby Accessories, compliments of Tianjin & the One Child Policy (4)
- 12: Sex, Money & Power: with Chinese characteristics (0)
- 07: Tianjin bike lane hero grandpas curse out obnoxious bus 天津大爷加油！ (1)
- 07: Top Ten Most Annoying Phrases in Chinese (0)
- 06: Disneyland Shanghai hits a snag… with Chinese characteristics (0)
- 06: “Rule of law best help to freedom of faith”
- 05: Tianjin bathhouse guasha: OWW!!! (7)
- 03: 法不责众 (0)
- 03: Apparently things are changing (1)
- 02: Funny Chinese songs by genius laowai for language learners (1)
- 02: Disturbing Pollution Stats & Images (0)
- 02: 陈词滥调 (0)
- November 2009 (19)
- 30: Behold the power of China’s weather gods! (9)
- 29: 龙虎斗 (3)
- 21: Slogans from the demolition zone (0)
- 19: Neglect and Discrimination of China’s Migrant Children (0)
- 19: “Aobama”, China, and Racism (0)
- 19: Religious (Re)Awakening and Chinese Society (0)
- 15: Happy Burn-Things-in-the-Road-to-Your-Ancestors Day (0)
- 14: When it comes to Chinglish, fair is fair (0)
- 13: Cinderella critiques Chinese education (0)
- 10: 媚笑 (0)
- 08: Why Africa welcomes the Chinese, according to the President of Rwanda (1)
- 08: Everything you wish you didn’t know about air pollution in China (10)
- 08: China’s Graduates: An Ant’s Life (0)
- 08: Understanding China’s political weather (0)
- 05: Today’s commute by the numbers (2)
- 04: 干妈 / 干爹 (0)
- 03: What’s in a (Chinglish) name? I’ll tell you… (1)
- 01: Chinese love pumpkins (2)
- 01: 南瓜灯 (0)
- October 2009 (9)
- 29: China Interwang Debris will resume soon (0)
- 29: 哏儿 (0)
- 24: Dark side of a Tianjin bathhouse (7)
- 21: 暗送秋波 (1)
- 19: 派口 (5)
- 18: Today: dirt storms, cardboard assault, cops, one-legged crickets, Moo-sa-leems, etc. (2)
- 10: Chinese tattoos in Vancouver (3)
- 06: Tianjin, we missed you (2)
- 06: 宝贝儿 (0)
- September 2009 (11)
- 27: Mainlanders & their emperors (0)
- 23: The Clone Wars… with Chinese characteristics (3)
- 21: Random snippets of Chinese conversation overheard in Vancouver (Do laowai have big heads?) (6)
- 19: China’s 60th Anniversary sneak peak photo gallery (0)
- 17: Comparing Chinese & American health care culture (0)
- 17: The infamous Chinese mother-in-law (0)
- 17: Documentary short on “Human Flesh Search Engines” (0)
- 14: “Disappearing Shanghai” photo galleries from Howard French (0)
- 09: Homecoming Saboteur: the cultural shock of returning home (PART 2) (2)
- 03: American kids, Chinese preschools & cultural challanges (0)
- 01: Happy “一百天” to Lilia! (3)
- August 2009 (11)
- 31: Lindy’s painful-but-funny episode in a rural Sichuan public shower (0)
- 27: Interesting photos of 1972 China (0)
- 26: Smash your bicycle to save it (0)
- 25: Beijing loves IKEA — but not for shopping (1)
- 20: The Best Decisions We Ever Made in China (#1): ditching the laowai ghetto (14)
- 17: 撒娇 (0)
- 17: Western women in popular Shanghai imagination (a Western woman’s perspective) (0)
- 14: Homecoming Saboteur: the cultural shock of returning home (6)
- 06: Psychological profiles of typical Chinese females (1)
- 03: Brother Who Sleeps in the Top Bunk — 睡在我上铺的兄弟 (0)
- 01: 初生牛犊(儿)不怕虎 (0)
- July 2009 (18)
- 29: See who builds China’s flashy skyscrapers (0)
- 29: Better-than-average understanding of China’s recent ethnic violence #2 (0)
- 28: “Water Brain” — high quality animation depicts the Chinese student experience (0)
- 26: What certain Chinese numbers really mean (0)
- 26: Why suicide rates are soaring among China’s college grads (1)
- 23: Modern Chinese archeology: backyard furnaces from the Great Leap Forward (0)
- 23: California Apologizes to Chinese Americans (1)
- 22: A Foreign Baby in Tianjin Pt. 1 – is this our future? (6)
- 20: 放(他的)鸽子 (0)
- 19: “Being in China is like…” (3)
- 15: Better-than-average understanding of China’s recent ethnic violence (1)
- 14: “the improvement has gone mainly into the facade.” (1)
- 09: Silent film of China in the 1920s (2)
- 09: Chinese-English Ambigrams (0)
- 04: Chinese immigrants vs. Laowai expats (41)
- 02: Chinese childhood before and after Reform & Opening (0)
- 02: The meanings of colours in China (0)
- 02: Sleeping Chinese dot com (0)
- June 2009 (16)
- 30: Why they still love Mao: “Liberation” (0)
- 29: 小资产阶级 (1)
- 28: A migrant worker… with a blog (0)
- 28: “No dogs or peasants” (2)
- 28: The Incomprehensible China And Its Difficult Problems (0)
- 26: 尿不湿/尿布 (0)
- 25: Understanding the latest official slogan in China’s most “American” city (0)
- 25: The “Six Why’s” (2)
- 25: Migrant children: The forgotten among China’s next generation (0)
- 23: Tianjin rated #1 Most Livable City in China; Beijing & Shanghai exposed as overrated gong shows (9)
- 18: How China changed me forever (3)
- 13: Mandarin lessons — can you be too young? (6)
- 08: Writing English mispronuciations with Chinese characters (0)
- 08: China’s history comes full circle — again (0)
- 08: Photos of mass stress relief at a Chinese highschool (0)
- 04: A 16-year-old priviledged Beijinger in Canada on this day in history
- May 2009 (12)
- 28: Bad husband! You make your wife do what? (7)
- 26: Lilia Eden (8)
- 22: Chinese women & high heels (1)
- 21: Raising bilingual children blogs (0)
- 21: China at the crossroads (videos & articles) (0)
- 21: 裸奔 (0)
- 09: Nothing to My Name / 一无所有 (12)
- 04: The Great Chinese characters debate: four views (0)
- 03: Heads-up to foreigners: “racism in China” is a cross-cultural conversation landmine (11)
- 02: 骑马找马 (1)
- 02: Learning “以人为本” (“people first”) through experience (0)
- 01: Assorted China-related visual fun (0)
- April 2009 (22)
- 28: Chinatown, Africa (0)
- 25: (How to be a) Good Samaritan with Chinese characteristics (Pt.3) (3)
- 22: “her laughter had lighted the cafeteria” (0)
- 21: China’s marriage markets (0)
- 20: Cultural Revolution fun (0)
- 20: Exploring the meanings of Jiang Rong’s Wolf Totem (狼图腾) (0)
- 18: Mainlanders and their past; Mainlanders and their selves — from China Witness by Xinran (1)
- 16: China’s state religion: “Political Confucianism” (2)
- 16: Menu-stealing Mandarin students! (0)
- 12: A “foreigner” in my own country, “yellow” people, and other funny Chinese racial talk (33)
- 11: Largest gender gap seen in China’s youngest generation (0)
- 11: East-West psychological stereotypes in the hot seat… sort of (0)
- 10: Aiya, Wen-ge-hua… 哎呀，温哥华…… (7)
- 09: China’s tattoo taboo (0)
- 09: China gets new simplified characters (2)
- 07: The Good Samaritan with Chinese characteristics (Pt.2): explanations, excuses, & scapegoats (4)
- 06: Chinese textbook battle: New Practical Chinese Reader vs. Chinese Made Easier (1)
- 03: PG-13 April Fools panda joke from the Taipei Times (0)
- 03: In a Xinjiang cemetery before Tomb Sweeping Day (0)
- 03: Time zone dispute manifests ethnic & cultural differences (0)
- 02: 囧，雷，山寨 (1)
- 01: The Good Samaritan with Chinese characteristics (Pt.1): examples (2)
- March 2009 (14)
- 14: About sharing the uglier sides of our China experience (a heads-up) (8)
- 14: 臭棋篓子 (0)
- 10: Migrant worker CBC radio interview (0)
- 10: How to hate people in China (1)
- 10: Chinese people eating fortune cookies… for the first time (0)
- 09: 上有政策，下有对策 (0)
- 08: Fire-Cupping & Guasha for Dummies (6)
- 06: Funny Chinese skit (0)
- 06: Beijing’s Olympic building boom becomes a bust (0)
- 06: Return of jobless strains China (0)
- 05: Woman, man, or East Asian pop star? (2)
- 02: The Two Cultures, Recycling Edition (0)
- 02: Pun-based Chinese New Year customs (0)
- 02: New Semester, New English Names (0)
- February 2009 (25)
- 27: 四世同堂 (0)
- 27: Four Generations Under One Roof (四世同堂) (1)
- 25: Chinese Medicine: Getting a Clue (Part 1) (8)
- 25: Cross-Cultural Marital Communication: Sacrifice, Identity, Choice (0)
- 25: The history textbook debate in China (0)
- 25: Deciphering the Sino-Africa saga (0)
- 22: China Road by Rob Gifford (1)
- 19: A head’s up on fake currency (0)
- 19: India is Not China, and the Olympics proved it (0)
- 19: How to Lean Fluent Mandarin Chinese (0)
- 14: They’re old, angry, have mobile phones, and are out to make some noise (0)
- 14: How law ‘works’ – an example (0)
- 14: Historical Chinese Image Collections: list o’ links (0)
- 12: Liang Shanbo & Juliet — 梁山伯与茱丽叶 (9)
- 09: Some areas of China facing worst drought in decades (0)
- 09: Analysis of China’s Olympics P.R. (0)
- 09: Chinese peasant art (0)
- 05: How do you spell that in Chinese? Language students’ love/hate relationship with Chinese characters (29)
- 04: Cohabitation with Chinese characteristics (0)
- 04: China’s Al-Jazeera (0)
- 04: Audio slideshow: Africans in Guangzhou (0)
- 03: Another shoe-flinging (0)
- 03: China’s Solution for Unemployed College Grads: State Jobs in the Boonies (0)
- 03: China vows to avoid involving police in rural social unrest in “hardest” year (0)
- 01: Pint-sized Chinese lions (6)
- January 2009 (40)
- 31: China holds ’secret talks’ with unregistered Protestant Churches (0)
- 31: Religious restrictions in China – getting the facts straight(er) (0)
- 31: Spending Chinese New Year with a Chinese family (2)
- 30: Two Worlds; One Apartment (7)
- 29: How to: Confuse the traffic in your hometown (6)
- 29: 5500-year-old man-made cave houses in China (0)
- 29: “Serf Liberation Day” (0)
- 29: Animated China & world statistics (0)
- 26: Temporary return to Vancouver – Day 5 (4)
- 26: 折腾 (2)
- 26: How to Use a Squat Toilet (0)
- 26: Hip-hop for the Chinese getting left behind (0)
- 26: Asian and Vietnamese kids adopted by Americans use Chinese New Year to connect with their homeland (0)
- 24: The Nian monster is coming! Better get some red underwear! (3)
- 22: One Tianjiner’s first impressions in America (2)
- 21: Welcome to Canada… are you the father? (0)
- 20: Getting guasha’d (刮痧) and octopussed (拔火罐) in a Tianjin bathhouse (8)
- 19: Leaving just when the fun’s getting started (2)
- 16: Karaoke Birthday Party! (0)
- 13: 1930’s American newsreels on China (0)
- 13: 我被雷了! (0)
- 12: Friendly, funny, revealing, and infuriating current signage in Tianjin & Beijing (4)
- 11: When China rules the world (0)
- 11: China in Papua New Guinea (0)
- 11: China in Africa (0)
- 09: 回头率 (0)
- 09: On Justice in China (0)
- 09: Deng Xiaoping, Prophet
- 09: From poverty to billionaires in one generation (0)
- 09: Stupid lǎowài thinks he wants to go dōngyǒng in the Wèijīn Hé! (4)
- 06: Free frogs (3)
- 05: Why Chinese restaurants don’t NEED to be as clean as Western ones (0)
- 05: Chinese Dumpings 101 (0)
- 05: 30 Days in a Chinese Barbershop (0)
- 04: A banquet, baijiu & Bon Jovi (my first office party in China) (2)
- 04: 陷入爱河 (0)
- 04: China’s matriarchal ethnic minority group (0)
- 04: Demographic surveys, with local Chinese gov characteristics (0)
- 04: Corruption and the laobaixing (0)
- 02: 她有喜了! (We’ve got a bǐng in the oven!) (11)
- December 2008 (44)
- 31: Happy “Niú” Year from Taipei! (2)
- 31: Chinese trucker sticks it to the po-po! (0)
- 31: Public sex ed murals from a Chinese village – translated (0)
- 29: 新年快乐！ (0)
- 29: China-friendly New Year’s Resolutions for Laowais (12)
- 27: UNO with Chinese characteristics (4)
- 24: Christmas Eve… with Chinese characteristics (5)
- 23: 平安夜 (0)
- 23: While hanging out with the sex ed students, Tianjin gets snow! (3)
- 20: Getting fire cupped in a Tianjin bath house (or) Losing a wrestling match to a giant octopus (17)
- 19: China’s 30th Anniversary of Reform & Opening broadcasts new slogans (0)
- 19: China’s millions of migrant workers 30 years on (0)
- 19: Why are Chinese the world’s biggest savers? (0)
- 19: 美丽“冻”人 (0)
- 19: An UnChristmas party in Tianjin (1)
- 18: Vote for our blog! (1)
- 16: Cultural differences you WILL encounter (0)
- 16: Why the rich and educated are loyal (0)
- 16: From Mao to modernity (0)
- 16: “There are too many Chinese!” (17)
- 16: 计划生育政策 (0)
- 14: A Tianjin ‘antique’ market (1)
- 14: “And the 2008 Tianjin Grinch Award goes to…” (2)
- 13: Shower (洗澡) (4)
- 13: A more realistic look at tone usage in Mandarin (0)
- 13: China’s farmers 30 years after their first big reforms (0)
- 13: Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking (0)
- 11: 吐 (0)
- 11: Some of the thinking behind the spitting (29)
- 10: China’s suicide rate soaring (0)
- 10: From Iron Girls to Oriental Beauties (0)
- 10: Top Ten Reasons Why There Won’t Be a Chinese American President Soon (0)
- 08: Language learning strategies used in Tianjin (1)
- 07: 啦啦队 (0)
- 07: Nine Chinese lives, nine Chinese stories (0)
- 06: Christmas doesn’t have to be Made In China (4)
- 05: Cultural Differences and Cognitive Dissonance (0)
- 05: The ’sea turtles’ coming home (0)
- 05: A closer look at Han racism (0)
- 04: China’s NBA (2)
- 02: “Harmony” vs. Rule of Law (0)
- 02: Chinese netizens “concerned” over local officials’ integrity: survey (0)
- 02: Beijing’s “Big Underpants” illustrated (0)
- 01: Meet Mrs. Shǐ – Striving Hard for a Stable Future (4)
- November 2008 (45)
- 30: Time & Tide: 5 years behind the Three Gorges Dam (0)
- 30: A real life Kungfu Hustle-style apartment block (0)
- 27: Balloons, noodles, and blog issues (1)
- 25: Revisiting Bertrand Russell’s China (0)
- 25: How yellow is the yellow river? (0)
- 25: We just want them to look bad? (0)
- 25: Force-feeding your neighbours infested Mandarin oranges (4)
- 23: Lunch with the Old Boys, and other high priorities (2)
- 23: Global financial crisis threatens China’s stability? (0)
- 23: China braces for unprecedented urbanization (0)
- 22: How to search the new Life photo archives released on Google (0)
- 22: Even Chinese neighbourhood recyclables collectors impacted by global financial crisis (0)
- 22: November 10K (1)
- 20: Once famously denounced by Mao, now finally laid to rest in China (0)
- 20: Birth of a Ugandan Chinatown (0)
- 20: Western China unearths well-preserved ancient mummies (0)
- 19: Fantastic China pictures from Time archives released online (0)
- 19: What can happen to a 6-month illegally pregnant women in China (0)
- 19: How the Chinese internet is making a difference (0)
- 18: Pushing Hands (推手) & The Gua Sha Treatment (刮痧) (2)
- 17: The economic crisis hits China’s migrant workers (0)
- 17: Making ‘friends’ as an English teacher in China (0)
- 17: A Chinese Memory Keeper’s teachers (0)
- 15: Getting what you asked for (Michael Bolton?!) (0)
- 14: 调情 (0)
- 13: China’s ‘anaconda on the chandelier’ (0)
- 12: 龙卷风 (0)
- 11: Negotiating rent in Chinglish – Rounds 7 & 8 (0)
- 10: 布什 / 奥巴马 (2)
- 10: Migrant workers living UNDER Beijing (0)
- 10: ‘People mountain people sea’ at a Shenzhen job fair (0)
- 09: How to: Ride a Bike in China (Part 2) (8)
- 08: Things getting worse on a particular disputed island (0)
- 08: “Chinese characteristics” vs. “Westernization” (0)
- 08: Chinese newspapers carry Obama’s victory; Chinese entrepreneurs register his name as trademark (0)
- 06: Post-Olympic changes in Tianjin’s local propaganda (1)
- 05: 非死不可 (2)
- 05: Sharpening class distinctions contradict Shanghai’s promoted image (0)
- 05: The phantom of police state is back (0)
- 05: A Kiss-up, Kick-down society (0)
- 03: Even in Death I’ll Love — 死了都要爱 (4)
- 02: ‘Painless abortion’ and ‘female surgery’ ad campaign hits Chinese university campus (0)
- 02: Going thirsty so Beijing can drink (0)
- 02: What leaving hutongs means to community relationships (0)
- 01: Leaf-peeping day trip to Fragrant Hills (香山) (0)
- October 2008 (42)
- 31: Avril Lavigne sings in Mandarin (0)
- 31: Photos from China’s ‘Peasant Olympics’ (0)
- 31: Drinking Chinese wine? Surprise, surprise! (0)
- 29: Sending Winter Clothes to the Dead in Tianjin (3)
- 28: Microsoft gets officially spanked for anti-piracy actions (0)
- 28: A senior Chinese citizen blogs personal reflections and social commentary (0)
- 28: The long-awaited release of G&R’s “Chinese Democr@cy” (listen here!) (0)
- 28: 送寒衣 (0)
- 28: China’s brutal international PR (0)
- 28: 30 years of change in images (0)
- 28: The dirt on how China manipulated it’s air quality reports (0)
- 27: 太牛了! (2)
- 26: After church in Tianjin, Karaoke party, Burning ghost money (2)
- 24: In China, better a rich man’s mistress than a poor man’s wife? (0)
- 24: Farwell to my ‘reporter’ career (0)
- 24: Major changes coming with China’s new rural reforms (0)
- 24: Who’s building the new New China? (6)
- 23: Less capitalist than it used to be (0)
- 23: “New nationalism” hampers China’s bolder news publications (0)
- 23: Religious freedom with Chinese characteristics (0)
- 23: Chinese funeral next door (0)
- 21: “What do you want most from the West?” (5)
- 20: Chinese architecture experiements with less soul-sucking urban housing designs (0)
- 20: Shanghai’s Oriental Daily ups the ante (0)
- 20: Why piracy works for ripped-off name brands like Microsoft (0)
- 19: Chinese people like it when you “lie” to them? (15)
- 16: Social themes and values via China’s popular horror films (0)
- 16: Visiting a ‘government church’ in China (0)
- 16: The Toxic Food List, illustrated (0)
- 16: This week in Tianjin (photos) (5)
- 13: On any given day in Tianjin (0)
- 13: 小鸟依人 (0)
- 13: Chewing Tianjin’s Air (2)
- 12: Baking with the neighbours & a word about Chinese apartments (2)
- 09: Local lunch scene — Oct 9, Tianjin, China (2)
- 09: 马屁精 (0)
- 05: Prime Minister “Grandpa” Wen’s Sept 23 interview with Fareed Zakaria (3)
- 03: How not to pick an English name (0)
- 03: Living in China Q&A with a California Intercultural Studies class (14)
- 01: Skyping from China? (2)
- 01: Modern shifts in China’s official historical narrative (0)
- 01: Haircut time with Mr. Chang (2)
- September 2008 (33)
- 30: Pretending to understand (and not fooling anyone) (0)
- 29: Is that really necessary? (4)
- 26: Metaphors for Tianjin Traffic (5)
- 24: 18-year-old students get first shave in rite of passage (0)
- 24: Chinese dairy scandal satire & complaint (0)
- 22: Why KFC is kicking McD’s butt in China (0)
- 22: 拍马屁 (0)
- 22: Women’s work (4)
- 19: No-go zones: what we avoid talking (and writing) about in Tianjin (4)
- 19: “Invisible Man” Chinese contemporary art (photos) (0)
- 17: Negotiating rent in Chinglish – Round 6 (2)
- 16: 嗲 (0)
- 15: Mid-Autumn Festival (Moon Festival) 2008 (3)
- 14: Rhymes against the State (0)
- 14: BBC dared to publish pro-China essay (9)
- 14: Help Me Name the 10K!!! (0)
- 13: Happy Mooncake Eating Day (0)
- 12: Lost in ‘translation’ (0)
- 11: 偷偷 (0)
- 11: Confucius: China’s Comeback Kid (0)
- 09: How to: Ride a bike in Tianjin (Part 1) (9)
- 08: How to: Avoid consuming dodgy products in Tianjin (0)
- 07: Going to the gym in China (0)
- 07: Paralympics Opening Ceremony sounds amazing (0)
- 07: National ‘Face’ & Local Sensitivity (Part 2): One hour of criticism on the “Regular Zhou” column & Tianjin Olympic interviews video (7)
- 05: National ‘Face’ & Local Sensitivity (Part 1): Not fit to print in Tianjin (11)
- 04: Giving “Ao Yun” his freedom (2)
- 04: A Chinese perspective on the meaning of the 2008 Olympics (0)
- 04: A ground-level look at obstacles to village ’self-rule’ in Tianjin (0)
- 02: Weekend escape to Nine Dragon Mountain (4)
- 02: A closer look at the censorship of translated Western media in China (0)
- 02: 螳螂 (0)
- 01: Our Cross-World Friends 5k Run (12)
- August 2008 (35)
- 29: Watching the Closing Ceremony at Tianjin’s Milky Way Plaza (1)
- 29: Disgusted (but funny) Chinese soccer fans (0)
- 29: How the NYT get’s “translated” in China (0)
- 29: Chinese “Lies That Bind” (0)
- 29: 闭幕式 (0)
- 28: Negotiating rent in Chinglish – the Drama Continues (Rounds 3-5) (4)
- 27: Some funny Olympic/translation jokes (0)
- 27: “My Peasant Dad Watches The Olympics” (0)
- 27: Humourous and less-than-flattering Chinese reactions to the Closing Ceremony (0)
- 25: How to become a Canadian (4)
- 24: 爱国 (0)
- 24: Anyone read… Polish? (5)
- 24: A foreigner’s Chinese Post Secret (8)
- 21: Age controversy… they’re busted (0)
- 21: Team USA’s Chinese volleyball coach talks about her switch (0)
- 21: Photos & Stories from a day in Olympic Beijing (4)
- 19: Poignant street-level photos of Beijing during the Olympics (0)
- 17: 相亲 (0)
- 17: Photos from a Saturday bike trip around Tianjin (7)
- 15: 派出所 (0)
- 15: When the police knock on your door, it’s best to have clothes on (8)
- 12: Painting Over Mao: Interpreting the Opening Ceremony (0)
- 12: Helpful Olympic Chinese vocab (0)
- 12: Chinese Patriots and Chinese Protestors (video) (0)
- 12: Confucius goes for gold: a cultural angle on Olympic competition (0)
- 12: Leader of the free world caught in Olympic cultural miscommunication? (2)
- 08: 开幕式 (0)
- 08: Watching the Opening Ceremony with a few thousand Tianjiners! (10)
- 08: Olympic soccer in Tianjin! (5)
- 06: China’s ‘century of humiliation’ and the Olympics (0)
- 06: China’s dream of becoming a “Great Power” (0)
- 06: “The isolated mentality of a small country” (0)
- 05: Meet Liú Wěi – Coming of Age in a Changing China (1)
- 01: The “Sacred Flame” comes to Tianjin! (0)
- 01: 圣火 (0)
- July 2008 (25)
- 31: Mouse Loves Rice — 老鼠爱大米 (10)
- 27: Where does China fit in the West’s global narrative? (4)
- 25: July’s propaganda: the “Eight Don’t Asks” and civilized traffic (0)
- 22: How our pre-Olympic summer’s shaping up (0)
- 22: 八不问 (0)
- 22: The “8 Don’t Asks” (0)
- 22: Shannon blogs her reverse culture shock (0)
- 22: “Socialism is Great!” online book excerpt (0)
- 19: China colonizing Africa? (0)
- 18: Mainland journalists discuss cross-cultural understanding (0)
- 18: What about Western culture annoys Chinese? (0)
- 18: Tianjin’s “Old Hundred Names” on the Olympics (8)
- 15: Other – an award-winning play about Chinese-foreigner relationships (1)
- 15: What the Olympics mean to China (Chinese perspective) (0)
- 12: Some modern Chinese marriage role expectations (0)
- 11: When the culture differences feel like getting ambushed by a firehose (22)
- 09: It goes both ways… (12)
- 08: Chinese internet slang helps let off some steam (1)
- 08: What could go wrong at the Olympics? Apparently everything. (0)
- 07: ‘True Love Waits’… with Chinese characteristics (2)
- 07: Faces in a Billion (0)
- 06: 结婚纪念日 (0)
- 05: What does it mean to be Chinese? (2)
- 03: Reduced to Memories: Tianjin’s hutongs (7)
- 02: China pokes Facebook (4)
- June 2008 (30)
- 30: Redefining China’s Families (0)
- 29: The Olympic welcome China wants us to experience (13)
- 27: A look at nationalist anger in China (0)
- 27: China’s P.R. shooting itself in the foot? (0)
- 27: Some Chinese jokes and two recent photos (4)
- 25: China’s ‘human flesh search engine’ (0)
- 25: Eating bitter (0)
- 25: June’s propaganda: cultured toilet humour (2)
- 25: 马桶 (0)
- 22: Guess who’s making Mainlanders fat? (0)
- 21: Marriage & public dancing, courtesy of Sexy Beijing (0)
- 20: China’s Third Gender (can you guess?) (6)
- 19: What Olympic Gold means to China (0)
- 18: Required reading for Westerners (0)
- 17: Bald Chinese advertising (0)
- 16: Some Mainlanders losing confidence, start blaming Fuwas (9)
- 16: 迷信 (0)
- 15: Chinese music videos with English & pinyin subtitles (4)
- 15: China’s Gold Medal Secret (0)
- 14: 蝴蝶 (0)
- 14: Zhōngwén zhī Yay! (China Night) (3)
- 11: Please stop paying attention to my… (14)
- 10: Chinese Views of ‘Sex and the City’ (0)
- 10: Ev@ngel!sm and the Olympics (0)
- 09: New photo galleries: Happy Forest village & Great Wall camping! (0)
- 07: How to: Camp on the Great Wall (5)
- 04: Like nothing you’ve ever heard (1)
- 04: Messages from the quake zone (0)
- 03: You’re (Not) Welcome at the Olympics (0)
- 02: The Olympics and the Earthquake: a Regular Zhou’s perspective (3)
- May 2008 (26)
- 30: ‘Seeking Truth Is More Important Than Saving Face’ (0)
- 30: Learning Chinese & Culture Stress: the importance of playing mind games with yourself (0)
- 29: Uganda… through the eyes of Mainlanders (0)
- 27: Sandy skies & May’s propaganda (3)
- 24: Earthquake parents desperate for justice (0)
- 23: Beijing Opera classes at Tianjin’s drama school (3)
- 23: 京剧 (0)
- 22: Heartbreaking footage of the initial earthquake and aftershocks (1)
- 22: ‘Sorry, but I’ll have to hurt your feelings’ (0)
- 21: China’s spiritual deficit (0)
- 20: Donating money… with Chinese characteristics (7)
- 19: Why this tragedy is different (2)
- 19: 天津人默哀 – Tianjin pays tribute to earthquake victims (2)
- 19: 默哀 (0)
- 18: Solidarity… with Chinese characteristics (0)
- 17: How to write your Chinese homework (3)
- 16: About the Sichuan earthquake (0)
- 15: 地震 (0)
- 15: Earthquake photos (0)
- 15: How Beijingers map China (0)
- 15: Text-message satire (0)
- 12: How to treat your mother in law’s son (5)
- 09: 杂牌军 (0)
- 09: Drink this (5)
- 04: Tianjin’s forsaken places – Part III (0)
- 01: Meet Guāng Yuǎn (光远)! (a.k.a ‘Shine Far’) (6)
- April 2008 (12)
- 28: Girls’ Afternoon Out (3)
- 26: Tianjin: more colourful in the rain, more marriable in the sun (5)
- 26: 男子汉 (0)
- 24: How to: Hang with the homies and not get totally hammered (5)
- 22: China’s “raging youth” (and don’t worry, we’re all fine here) (0)
- 22: 愤青 (0)
- 19: Why Mainlanders are taking it personally, racially, and facially – the short answer (9)
- 18: Negotiating rent in Chinglish – Round 2 (0)
- 15: Welcome the Olympics! Have Decorum! Establish a New Atmosphere! (April’s propaganda) (12)
- 10: Too fat! Too thin!! Everyone’s got an opinion. (5)
- 07: Negotiating rent in Chinglish – Round One (7)
- 04: Meet Mr. Cháng – Navigating Fate (3)
- March 2008 (17)
- 31: 忍 (0)
- 31: Tianjin’s forsaken places – Part II (2)
- 29: Mr. China’s Son: A villager’s life (1)
- 25: Comfort Zone Violation #379 – Naked English Practice? (10)
- 24: Tianjin’s forsaken places – two months before demolition (4)
- 24: 拆 (0)
- 21: 复活节 (0)
- 21: Easter art from Chinese artists (0)
- 17: To “lie” or not to “lie” (13)
- 17: 言外之意 (0)
- 13: B.Y.O.B. – bring your own… bird? (4)
- 10: Meeting the migrant workers (0)
- 09: Some very recent pictures, & an ancestral temple photo gallery (3)
- 07: 三八 (0)
- 06: Disclaimer on Beauty (2)
- 05: 惊蛰 (0)
- 04: Happy Learn From Lei Feng Day! (March’s propaganda) (0)
- February 2008 (14)
- 29: Meet Mr. Lù – a living Léi Fēng (8)
- 28: Grisly morning (5)
- 28: 看热闹 / 凑热闹 (0)
- 24: February’s Propaganda: Don’t be jerks to one another (8)
- 20: Hiking the Great Wall (4)
- 17: Suffering the consequences of (near) illiteracy – again. (11)
- 14: 麒麟 (0)
- 14: Getting kicked when they’re down (4)
- 11: Sharing Chinese New Year’s with the neighbours (12)
- 08: Chinese New Year: a Passover? (12)
- 06: A little taste of Chinese New Year in our neighbourhood (6)
- 05: Happy New Year! Congratulations for not being eaten! (3)
- 05: 过年好! (0)
- 04: The Tianjin “Incident” (1)
- January 2008 (17)
- 31: Beauty is all in the eye…lid? (4)
- 29: White is beautiful… (9)
- 28: Why fishing? (frozen edition) (6)
- 26: Fun with gourds (5)
- 24: Two questions re： cabbages and toilets (7)
- 22: Spitting is good for something! (2)
- 21: Being clueless tastes… different (0)
- 20: “Chinese women are like American black people” (0)
- 19: Playing on the lake! (9)
- 17: Eric Liddell: McSaint (1)
- 15: Feels like we’re still in 2007 (7)
- 12: January’s propaganda: museum style (Tianjin Museum) (5)
- 08: Are you ready for some “CSL”? (9)
- 08: 海带 (0)
- 06: What do the Olympics mean to “their China”? (7)
- 03: If you were terminally ill, would you want to know? (0)
- 02: China takes over world, starts with 2010 Olympic mascots, exacerbates Canadian identity crisis (2)
- December 2007 (15)
- 31: 新年快乐! (0)
- 30: December’s propaganda (5)
- 28: Quick update, and help us name a mystery carcass (11)
- 24: 圣诞快乐! (Merry Christmas!) (6)
- 24: 圣诞快乐! (0)
- 21: Playing on thin ice, interviewing locals, gifts, and stuff (2)
- 19: Dead puppies (don’t look, Grandma!) – menu included (6)
- 19: 放马过来! (0)
- 16: Why they hate the Japanese (6)
- 14: Karaoke Party! (0)
- 11: 干杯! (0)
- 10: Drinking, driving, and kèqi dancing (3)
- 06: Some Tang dynasty poetry for the Christmas we’re missing (2)
- 03: 炒鱿鱼 (0)
- 03: How to not lose your friends in crowded Chinese street markets, and other appetizing recent photos (0)
- November 2007 (17)
- 29: 狗屁 (0)
- 29: November’s propaganda, and June Cleaver eats Chinese pizza (3)
- 28: Selling it (1)
- 25: Making a good impression (4)
- 22: Sex, drugs, and Tianjin University students (4)
- 22: 谈恋爱 (2)
- 21: Why fishing? (2)
- 18: China’s fabled migrant workers migrate into our backyard (9)
- 15: There’s hell to pay (3)
- 13: Singles Awareness Day (S.A.D.), China style (0)
- 10: Nanaimo bars make their Tianjin debut (6)
- 10: 甜死了 (0)
- 08: Lunchtime strikeout (0)
- 06: If being cute were an Olympic sport (or) Fun with homonyms (1)
- 03: Fall in the city (1)
- 01: Being a “Lightbulb” (0)
- 01: 电灯泡 (0)
- October 2007 (15)
- 29: How to: Stay warm before they turn the heat on (4)
- 26: On Love and being ’smart enough’ (0)
- 26: 一般聪明 (0)
- 23: Socialism with Chinese Characteristics (2)
- 19: Beauty & Young Love… with Chinese characteristics (Updated) (8)
- 19: 具有中国特色的____ (0)
- 18: Sidewalk Calligraphy (0)
- 16: Oops! (Dominoes… with Chinese characteristics) (6)
- 13: How polluted? Our first human casualty (6)
- 11: October’s propaganda: anti-”gendercide” (0)
- 08: Smoke follows beauty (Here comes the bride!) (4)
- 06: Sacrifices great and small (6)
- 03: Birds and their men (2)
- 02: Free Advice – for you and your Chinese friends (2)
- 01: 关心 talk: so offensive it’s funny (7)
- September 2007 (18)
- 28: 农村 (0)
- 28: Morning with a village family (4)
- 24: Happy Mooncake Day! (3)
- 24: 月饼 (0)
- 22: Steel Roses, add gas! (1)
- 22: 加油! (0)
- 19: Firecrackers, inside, next door, at 8am (0)
- 17: Jessica talks Chinese… in her sleep… (1)
- 15: When speaking practice is fun, it can be really fun (6)
- 13: Harry Potter and a Chinese Audience (6)
- 11: 人山人海 (3)
- 09: Taibei underworld (2)
- 07: Tourons… with Chinese Characteristics (0)
- 06: Crossing the street (Pt. 1) (2)
- 05: Random slices of today (0)
- 04: Measure words (0)
- 02: Sewer surfing (now with video!) (0)
- 01: A Global Village? (2)
- August 2007 (23)
- 31: Emancipating Mr. Knightley (0)
- 29: 蝈蝈 (0)
- 29: Lunchtime Noodle Magic (4)
- 28: Suspicion… (0)
- 27: 同志 (0)
- 27: Bought a Pet Cricket at the FlowerBirdFishBug Market (0)
- 24: Cross-cultural confession & August’s slogan (0)
- 23: Sex and Politics (0)
- 20: 毽子 (0)
- 20: Hospitality… with Chinese characteristics (4)
- 16: Off to Beijing, regulating reincarnation, & puff-puff-slams (4)
- 16: 蝙蝠 (0)
- 15: Iron & Silk (3)
- 15: 放洋屁 (0)
- 14: At the Animal Garden with Shine Far (3)
- 14: 动物园 (0)
- 12: Heros – and the Greater Good (0)
- 10: For all the Harry Potter hold-outs (0)
- 08: Realizations (4)
- 06: Dematerialization, circular economies, biocoenosis, industrial metabolism, etc. (0)
- 05: How to get a Language Exchange partner when you don’t really want one (7)
- 03: July’s slogan with bonus poetry (8)
- 01: Our current home by the numbers (2)
- July 2007 (23)
- 30: The (cultural) value of money (0)
- 28: Jiao zi lessons, watching rated ‘R’ Harry Potter movies (0)
- 28: 人在心不在 (0)
- 26: Hallows or Horcruxes? (1)
- 25: Chess, for 2 to 10 players (10)
- 23: Lost the kitten, found the ninja (1)
- 22: Sunday afternoon (4)
- 22: 麻瓜 (0)
- 21: You were trilingual once (2)
- 17: Logic vs Intuition, Round 2 (6)
- 16: Logic vs Intuition, Round 1 (0)
- 16: No sissy Western food hang-ups here (0)
- 13: To Understand China (0)
- 12: Random stuff from unpublished posts (0)
- 11: China and YOUR Future (6)
- 10: Becoming morning people (0)
- 08: The Rules: arguing after a traffic accident (6)
- 08: 山中无老虎，猴子称霸王 (0)
- 06: Fast, facially-challenged tigers (song!) (10)
- 05: 丁克夫妻/DINK couples (2)
- 04: Judging China (12)
- 03: Choosing a Chinese name – part 5 (8)
- 01: Illiteracy hazards, sidewalk calligraphers (2)
- June 2007 (14)
- 30: Sunday lunch: frogs (6)
- 29: Altercation (6)
- 28: The measure of a culture (4)
- 26: Killing mosquitoes with curry (3)
- 26: 蚊子 (0)
- 24: Putting the OMG! in Smog (9)
- 22: Choosing a Chinese name – part 4 (1)
- 19: Learning Mandarin: Realistic Expectations (22)
- 18: Chinese chess and how not to offer cherry tomatoes to old men (7)
- 17: China Night (1)
- 16: Finally, somewhere non-city (2)
- 15: Camping on the Great Wall! (0)
- 15: June’s slogan gets full marks (1)
- 15: 林怡安 (1)
- May 2007 (20)
- 30: Server move [UPDATED June 11] (1)
- 27: Making it rain, dodging pollution (3)
- 25: Acknowledging value, conveying respect & appreciation (0)
- 25: ???? (0)
- 22: Some rather dry illiteracy fun (3)
- 22: ? (0)
- 19: Marriage market, Eric Liddell, weekend slogan (2)
- 18: Moonlighting as Sexperts, battling culture stress (2)
- 16: The Old Boys Club (2)
- 16: 白酒 (0)
- 14: Love is something you make (7)
- 12: Streetcorner haircut & bigtime bonus weekend slogans (0)
- 12: ?? (0)
- 10: Loaded Questions (3)
- 08: Tourons (0)
- 06: Eating bitterness (0)
- 06: ?? (0)
- 04: The Curse of Da Shan (3)
- 03: Homework with whisky and singing (8)
- 01: Hunting Tianjin apartments, armed with Chinglish (4)
- April 2007 (19)
- 27: Our friends the rock stars (1)
- 27: Weekend Slogan #3 (0)
- 22: Almost Famous (5)
- 22: ????? (0)
- 21: Weekend slogan #2 (0)
- 21: ?? (0)
- 19: Before & After: Tianjin’s transformation at ground level (0)
- 19: 牛仔裤 (0)
- 18: Dragging this out… (0)
- 17: I ate Hong Kong (2)
- 15: Obligatory cat eating post (4)
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- 12: When good people die, they… (1)
- 11: Chinese name suggestions (9)
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- 07: Community Art Project: interpret this (9)
- 03: The Things We Miss…. (9)
- 01: Comes with the territory (3)
- March 2007 (22)
- 29: Miriam Lea! (6)
- 27: Choosing Chinese Names: more dangerous than you think (2)
- 27: ??? (0)
- 24: A toilet! A toilet! My kingdom for a toilet! (1)
- 24: ????? (0)
- 23: Skyping season is officially open (2)
- 22: ???? (0)
- 22: The Men and the Boys (3)
- 20: The secret to tolerating shopping (3)
- 20: ?? (0)
- 19: The Suan Bua gave us E.coli! (0)
- 16: Fire Chicken’s new home (2)
- 15: Stayin’ Alive Part 3: Finding Coffee! (1)
- 14: Fireworks (4)
- 14: ?? (0)
- 12: Classroom vs. Real Life, part 2 (2)
- 09: ?? (0)
- 08: Speaking whale (1)
- 07: ????? (0)
- 05: Joining the Bike Armies of Tianjin (6)
- 03: Stayin’ Alive Part 2: Learning to cross the street (1)
- 01: First day of Mandarin class (1)
- February 2007 (21)
- 28: Stayin’ Alive Part 1: Mandatory medical check-ups (0)
- 26: Photos from today (0)
- 25: Settling in, TP misplacement, Sunday foreigner fellowship (11)
- 25: ?? (0)
- 23: ?? (0)
- 23: Arrived in Tianjin (4)
- 21: Hello from Bangkok (3)
- 18: Puking in Paradise (5)
- 15: Long Overdue Post – Yangmingshan Mountain (5)
- 15: ?? (0)
- 12: “Kill It – NO Mercy!” Cooking Thai in Chiang Mai (3)
- 12: An Irresistible Opportunity (17)
- 10: First day in Chiang Mai (4)
- 09: Taipei to Chiang Mai (1)
- 07: Lao Zhao on Beijing accents (5)
- 06: Famous New Year’s Night Market (0)
- 04: Mahjong, Mexican food, and More Goodbyes (1)
- 04: The Last BC Pill in all of Taiwan (11)
- 03: Night out with the young adults group (1)
- 03: ?? (0)
- 02: Beginning the long week of Goodbyes – with Peking Duck (6)
- January 2007 (17)
- 27: Spinning the grades (8)
- 27: ??? (0)
- 27: Literature of turmoil (2)
- 25: ?? (0)
- 25: Just had an earthquake (6)
- 23: Content vs. Process (4)
- 19: Man-purses as status symbols (11)
- 19: ?? (0)
- 16: ??? (2)
- 16: Westernized… or not (0)
- 12: A day in the life… (12 of 12 Jan ‘07) (9)
- 09: How the Chinese will conquer the world (9)
- 06: Mahjong lesson (2)
- 06: ?? (0)
- 04: Tentacle Pleasures & voice-over work (7)
- 02: Happy New Year from Wulai (2)
- 01: 新年快樂! (0)
- December 2006 (14)
- 30: Leaving overnight to Wulai (0)
- 29: By way of explanation… (0)
- 27: Our First Taiwan Earthquake (5)
- 25: 聖誕快樂! – Shèng dàn Kuài lè! (4)
- 24: ????! (0)
- 20: Finished… (16)
- 15: That’s not a dragon — it’s a loong! (7)
- 14: Take this, capitalist! (8)
- 12: This is us (6)
- 11: ????? (0)
- 08: The god of Individualism (15)
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- 05: Delete=ouch! & Paper Intimidation (5)
- 02: Rich (3)
- November 2006 (17)
- 30: Too busy to talk – have a panda instead (4)
- 29: ?? (0)
- 27: Recent photos from here & there (4)
- 26: A brief indulgence of childishness… (6)
- 23: A Thanksgiving to be Remembered… (2)
- 21: It’s a Zen thing (10)
- 19: Looking for Double Happiness (2)
- 19: ??? (0)
- 14: Museum of World Religions (2)
- 12: Holy Santa, Batman! & Very cool Chinese Firefox plugin (0)
- 11: 11-11-11 (1)
- 10: English Speech contest justice (5)
- 06: I love Tuesdays!!! (5)
- 05: Notes on a local passing (0)
- 04: ?? (0)
- 02: Beyond the Chinese Face (0)
- 01: A little Chinglish from home (4)
- October 2006 (21)
- 30: Negotiating life: accept or revolt? (5)
- 29: Spaghetti – with chopsticks (3)
- 28: “Beauty” (6)
- 27: Problem – Solution (2)
- 26: Blending in… not so much (6)
- 25: Gift-exchanging and an update (6)
- 23: Chinese English Names in Beijing (0)
- 20: ??? (0)
- 20: Defining “You” (3)
- 18: Assaulted by the wasabi… (20)
- 17: Taiwan dinosaurs and my brother is hot (6)
- 14: Can Asians Think? (6)
- 10: ????????? (0)
- 10: Taiwan Tea Party (0)
- 07: 台北, 中秋節快樂! (5)
- 07: Who wants “Freedom”?: Non-Western critiques of the West (8)
- 05: ?? (1)
- 05: Scooter slogans you live can’t without…and a break! (3)
- 05: ??? (0)
- 04: The REAL reason we’re going to China (6)
- 03: Objects and Their Contexts (7)
- September 2006 (18)
- 30: The Geography of Thought (3)
- 28: Them’s fightin’ words… for our grandkids (5)
- 26: Portraits of the Teacher (or a matter of perspective) (5)
- 26: ???? (0)
- 24: Chinese cell-phone parrot (1)
- 22: ?? (0)
- 21: Chinese Doctor Visit & Geeking out (7)
- 19: Guess who’s having a BABY???! (3)
- 17: Coffee Conflictions (6)
- 16: ?? (0)
- 16: Creepy, eh? (1)
- 10: Scenery, machinery, people & love (2)
- 06: ?? (0)
- 06: Snake soup, hiking, temples (3)
- 05: National Palace Museum (1)
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- 03: Whoa – YouTube (0)
- 01: Surprisingly normal… (2)
- August 2006 (8)
- 31: Reason #582 Why we’re bent on learning the language and learning it well (0)
- 29: Foreigners are a total gong show (0)
- 27: Maple syrup cookies get mixed reviews (3)
- 24: No rest for the wicked (7)
- 23: Landed in Taipei (3)
- 14: Back from Camping (8)
- 08: Family and Friends… (1)
- 06: Airport Ramblings… (6)
- July 2006 (11)
- 31: ????! (2)
- 31: Back in the FMC (3)
- 23: Survived ESL camping (5)
- 17: ESL camping (0)
- 15: When ‘our’ food is the foreign food (1)
- 10: First trips to church (2)
- 09: Hard is good (0)
- 04: Teaching ESL in Vancouver (5)
- 03: We’re public (0)
- 02: Worcestershire cravings (2)
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