Sometime ago I saw this cartoon in the Shanghai Daily and I was positively surprised. It was the first time I saw a cartoon that was slightly critical of the way China is handling it’s historic sites in it’s constant drive to build new, ugly real estate.
Sure, it’s in the Shanghai Daily, aimed at us crazy foreigners but still.
I like history, I like old buildings and my hope for 2008 is that most of them will make it to 2009.
Happy New Year!
My step daughter is in boarding school, a Chinese boarding school.
She told us before that the school had decided not to pay any attention to Christmas as it’s a Western holiday.
Chinese students should be focused on traditional Chinese holidays is the idea which is something the government is trying to promote very actively.
It makes sense as I can’t remember the last time I celebrated the Muslim Sugar Festival or the Jewish Hanukkah and I definitely never went out for dinner for Chinese New Year when I lived in Holland.
We called her last night, as we do a couple of times a week, to see how things were. She said she was going to have a Christmas party in her dorm with her classmates, they even had smuggled in some beer and snacks.
Globalization of a holiday that the strict Chinese boarding schools won’t be able to stop.
It’s been a long time since I published about China’s national pet the panda.
I haven’t seen any shagged out pandas lately, nor updates on the panda cam or important news like ‘Man bites panda’.
Even panda politics seems to be out of fashion for the moment.
It is time though for my irregular panda picture (if the Shanghai Daily can put one on its front page every month, so can I).
I decided it’s time for Panda smoking.
A sure way of getting a zero percent chance of ever starting a language exchange must be this classified.
One more cartoon I found in the unlinkable SCMP. The cartoon says it all.
Can you help me find a nice boyfriend for my cousin?
W. was having a drink with a friend and this wasn’t the first time she was asked such a question. (more…)
Just ran into a sound board for China. You can click the map and hear the sounds of different parts of China. Ranging from industrial noise in Chongqing to the construction of the Olympic swimming pool in Beijing.
Start listening
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