Slate ran an interesting piece yesterday about the increasing frequency with which Chinese people have, and use, English names. The author of the piece (Huan Hsu), a Chinese-American living in Shanghai, writes, “At my workplace, which is 90 percent mainland Chinese, just about everyone I interacted with had an English name, usually selected or...
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I'm not opposed to having a plan for your life, but making up a chart for it in Excel is terrifying. In life, you only get one trip to the end of the road , or only one chance up on the stage; I feel these all can rely on charts. However, getting...
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Today I was flipping through the written memorial for the tenth anniversary...
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I went to visit Xiaobo's grave . A wind sprung up suddenly, and light pink flower petals -- I don't know if they were cherry or peach blossoms -- floated down one after another. I thought of Xiaobo's life, just like this flower: after blooming magnificently, it floats softly...
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It’s no secret that there are more men in China than women – 32 million more men, to be exact. This will undeniably have a huge impact on Chinese society. Essentially this means that there are about 32 million Chinese men that will be unable to find wives, unable to carry on their family...
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At Zhejiang University, there are many girls who, like me, are dating foreigners. I'm young and beautiful, witch excellent grades, and many people pursue me, but I'm dissatisfied with Chinese men. Please tell me, is that not conducting myself with dignity? Loving whom we choose, is this wrong?
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McClatchy has an interesting piece up about the increasing popularity of tattoos in China in recent years (h/t to Danwei). It’s a pretty interesting read, and apparently lots of Chinese people are getting tattoos in foreign languages, so hopefully in a few years we can look forward to seeing English tattoos that make as...
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If you live in China, you’ve seen them. Even if you can’t read Chinese, you can probably guess what they’re saying. They’re the red and yellow banners fluttering from official buildings everywhere, the tackily illustrated posters telling you not to spit on the street, and the collages of hundreds of smiling Chinese faces with...
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It’s funny how things turn out: after 60 years as an officially atheist country, it seems kind of hard to deny that religion is growing in China. That in and of itself doesn’t mean as much as one might think – after all, China has had religion for most of its history and the...
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Last Sunday, I logged into our website with no greater intent than writing a post of some kind so as to keep to our unofficial one post per day quota. Finding an image I interpreted as racist on several Chinese blogs, I decided to write about the picture and the larger issue behind...
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