Shanghai China Snippets Observations about living in Shanghai and China in general

I always knew it.

Having watched her videos through Kazaa, seeing her
act in Baywatch, hearing of her appetite for hard rockers and now even
posing nude for a soon te be launched anti-fur campaign in China, this is the only conclusion to be
reached.

From now on she is officially a species in herself.
At least
in China.

My favorite newspaper these days is the online version of the China
Daily. Besides their creativity in using the English language, they
also seem to be on their own mission to make sex a more accepted topic.
Despite the ban of a sex show (see earlier post) the China Daily posts
the results of an online survey (held by the China Sexology Association
and Sina.com) among Chinese woman about their sex lives.

Apparently “87 per cent of the women believe they have pleasure having sex.” [We need a survey to find out when they really know]

To establish whether the surveyed woman are knowledgeable enough about
the topic it is stated that “As they are also Chinese Internet surfers,
it is believed that they also have a knowledge about sex.” [The
conclusion of an online survey being that they are also Chinese
Internet surfers is not bad at all. I am not sure how that relates to
having knowledge about sex though] Another survey is mentioned,
done in 1999-2000, that concluded that “nearly 80 per cent of Chinese
women did not know exactly what orgasm is”. It seems a lot has changed
since. To be totally updated, check out the article.

A new talk show “The Mask”, set to be launched Jan. 1 next
year, has received the red light by China’s TV regulator (SARFT). The China Daily reports
that the show was going to be a half-hour program about “issues in
common Chinese people’s daily sex lives with experts on hand to offer
advice”. According to a new SARFT circular TV stations “need to produce
talk shows talking topics about major issues in China’s political and
economic life and basic interests of people”. Am I missing
something here or are my basic interests different from the rest of the
world.

A good indicator for having a happy marriage is sexy pics.

All this wisdom comes from Xinhua News.

The caption of the pics states:

“Jennifer, feel so great, took a group
of photoes of herself, in which she is half nude, looks quite
sexy and attractive”.

So, remember, don’t just take pictures of the beautiful scenery,
make sexy pictures of your wife or/and girlfriend, show them to your
friends and family and everyone knows you are happy.

Let’s see. We are a big travel agency, actually we are the CITS of
Guilin. We (should) make a lot of money because there are many, many
people coming to Guilin. According to our website it is “a world famous
tourist city for its picturesque scenery, as well as a well-known
cultural and historic city.” A 4 Days Traditional New Year tour will set you back a mere US$668 p/p. And we like YOU, student/retired
person or a person
who is traveling in China and would like to spend some time in/around
beautiful Guilin?, to work for us for free. You can pay your own
airfare, food and drinks but we can help you with an invitation letter
so you can enter the Mainland. You can work 5 days a week, a minimum of
5 hours a day, and teach us English, edit the website, do the customer
communication etc. and yes, we even give you a furnished
apartment. Whenever I read this kind of crap, this cheap
behaviour, to trick foreigners into working for free I really get
troubled.

It reminds me of the the time a friendly student asked me if I wanted
to participate in a nice travel weekend and do some dances and sing a
lovely Dutch song. They would pay me 100 Rmb and I had of course the
chance to see the beautiful scenery. And who organized it again, oh
right, the big jewellery store that was expanding and needed some nice
PR.

If you are interested to work for free for the CITS, just go here. They need you all year round.