China Rants - Archived

chinashmina.com — What if China was a virtual world? My random thoughts on some of Mao's campaigns.

www.chinabuzz.net — Such funny pictures! Just look at Chinese tourists "attacking" the shops in London. The training of squeezing into overcrowded buses wasn't in vain :-)

rob.easternity.com — "...that’s why I attract so many space cadets. It’s a case of deep calling to deep, with one space cadet seeing in another person all the things he or she recognizes as space cadet-esque... Having so said, I would like to introduce you to one of the weirder people I’ve met in my time in China, and that’s saying something considering we only talked for about ten minutes earlier this afternoon."

www.businessinsider.com — Joe Weisenthal tears apart a recent opt-ed piece in the NYT that posed solving a bunch of the US's problems by selling out Taiwan to the PRC in exchange for debt forgiveness.

www.youtube.com — A more balanced viewpoint on China's "Great Firewall of China" than the usual barrage of criticism

www.nationalreview.com — China has to maximize its power before demographic decay sets in. In other words, it has strong incentives to be bold and to push, hard and fast.

chinahopelive.net — The drain gas was so bad in our first apartment in China that the smell actually woke us up the first night we were there. Here's how we fixed the problem in that apartment and our most recent one.

chinahopelive.net — My contribution to CCP Day festivities: sharing this translated article from the TSPM website. Probably the most galling propaganda I've ever seen, especially considering the history between the CCP and China's Christians.

www.asiasentinel.com — Having read Shanghai Scrap’s post about Mara Hvistendahl’s new book Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men, other than feeling a surge of shame over a despicable part of Chinese culture, I can only say that the crucial thing is not to conflate women’s right to terminate a pregnancy (irrespective of the sex of the embryo) with parents’ sex selectiv

shanghainovice.com — It was a task I had been dreading, the moment I had to walk into a Chinese hair salon and leave the fate of my hairstyle in the fingertips of a hairdresser who didn't understand a word I spoke. Eventually I had to take the plunge...