Laowai Interview: Richard Burger of The Peking Duck – General

"I have a huge “China” folder of RSS sub­scrip­tions in my Google Reader so I can def­i­nitely empathize with [...] sen­ti­ments about there being too many China blogs. Of course, it’s really just an exam­ple of the “infor­ma­tion over­load” the inter­net can be blamed for foist­ing upon mod­ern soci­ety. It sim­ply made send­ing and receiv­ing infor­ma­tion so easy.

So are North Korea bloggers better than English language China bloggers?

Well after a concerted year of following both the busy Korean and Chinese blogospheres, I’m prepared to go out on a limb to say the edge goes decidedly to the Koreans.

Rookie LLW blogger Katie shares her thoughts on the pros and cons of choosing to raise little laowai children in China. Great topic and great comments.

Global opinion surveys over the last three years consistently indicate that many are turning their backs on the West and – with hope, fear, or both – see China as moving to center stage. As the old joke goes, optimists are learning to speak Chinese; pessimists are learning to use a Kalashnikov.