One world, one dream

A catchy little tune by Chris Pereira, a more creative version of Hong Laowai (Red Foreigner) who puts together his own original Chinese songs as well as vlogs his thoughts on contemporary China. (h/t to Danwei)

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Micah and John on Touring Shanghai 7 weeks 3 days ago

Blogger Matthew Stinson gets some advice from Sinosplice's John Pasden and fellow Shanghai expat Micah Sittig on some must-see and must-do things when visiting Shanghai for the first time.

Hao Hao Gets Sociable 1 year 41 weeks ago

The Hao Hao Report has been added to the latest version of the excellent WordPress plugin - Sociable. The plugin allows blog owners to easily add a collection of icons to their posts making the addition of their articles to various social bookmarking sites (such as this) a breeze.

To see this in action - check out any of the posts at the Lost Laowai Blog.

Problems in a Perfect Beijing Apartment 2 years 8 weeks ago

From Danwei, "Dealing with high prices, sketchy rental agents, flaky landlords, and annoying neighbors can make renting an apartment in Beijing a painful ordeal. Here is one horror story..."

Things that COULD go wrong at the Olympics 42 weeks 6 days ago

Mutant Palm puts forth possible "bad stuff" that could happen at the Olympics. Try this link from in China. It's Blogspot.

Swap Your China Related Books, Music & Movies Online, Cheap, Easy & Secure 35 weeks 20 hours ago

Hitflip is a young and fast-growing company. We run Europe's biggest P2P swap platform for media products (DVDs, games, CDs, audiobooks, and books). Our aim is to excite our members by making the swap of media products as easy and cheap as possible. All our members have to do is enter which products they have and which ones they want, and Hitflip does the rest.

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From May, no lighting up at most public places in capital 33 weeks 4 days ago

The China Daily reports that it will soon implement stricter measures to control smoking in large public places including restaurants, bars, Internet cafes, hotels, offices, holiday resorts and all indoor areas of medical facilities.

The move is largely inline with the city's pledge to have a smoke free Olympics in August. Just how strongly these measures will be enforced is yet to be seen.

H/T to Danwei.

Beijing Olympics Advice from ex-CNN journalist 16 weeks 2 days ago

Thomas Crampton interviews ex-CNN Beijing bureau chief and the driving force behind Global Voices Online, Rebecca MacKinnon, about advice she has for journalists coming to China during the Beijing Olympics. Her advice echos loudly for other visitors or long-term residents as well.

HHR RSS Feeds Messed Up? Read This 1 year 25 weeks ago

Hi, sorry for the inconvenience, but anyone that is experiencing weirdness in their HHR RSS feeds, please just update the feed. The links are:

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House of the Flying Bananas 1 year 34 weeks ago

From the Danwei article: "A group of American students of Chinese has produced a spoof kung fu film and posted it to Youtube. Apparently shot in Vermont, the film is titled House of Flying Bananas. The dialogue is in laowai-inflected Mandarin, with English subtitles."

It's a fun piece of silliness, which you can watch below or on YouTube.
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