Posted in china, culture, economics, tagged china, economics, food, meat, mobile, prices, telecom, unicom on May 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Rise of China and Meat Prices
Back when I was in California growing up, my parents would occasionally take us out to eat at western restaurants or fast food places. I was generally able to finish my food as a kid, but my sister used to be able to eat only a spec of food before she explodes [...]
Posted in china, random, tagged china, soy sauce on May 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Buying Soy Sauce
I like random Chinese phrases that become extremely popular on the internet. I personally think they’re much more interesting than those 4-letter chengyu that the ‘cultured’ people use.
Posted in china, culture, politics, tagged china, politics, culture, human rights, freedom, great firewall on May 29, 2008 | 9 Comments »
The west has generally perceived China to be a country without freedom. That’s why there’s always this talk about no human rights, police brutality, and government regulations over every little thing you do. When someone says this to a Chinese person, they would generally get a reply about how China is free and they never [...]
Posted in china, culture, economics, olympics, politics, random, tagged china, olympics, politics, economics, yao ming, earthquake, hackers, democracy, sports, liu xiang, black taxi on May 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Alright, I kinda wanna talk about something other than the earthquake, so here are some random things I’ve been thinking about.
First of all, there’s sports. A lot of people in the United States like to call Yao Ming and Liu Xiang tools of the CCP. I mean they really don’t have much personality when compared to [...]
Posted in china, culture, politics, tagged china, criticism, earthquake, politics, sichuan, unity, wenchuan on May 27, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Internet Special Agents
Whenever some sort of disaster or crisis strikes, there’s usually some kind of call for ‘unity’. Anti-Flag and Rage Against the Machine gets taken off the radio, people all go to enquire about joining the armed forces, and people wave a lot of flags. Any dissenting opinion leads to condemnation that they’re unpatriotic [...]
Posted in china, politics, tagged china, earthquake, politics, sharon stone on May 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Well, now that I’m back at work I guess it’s time to start gearing up the post-writing-machine again. However, I’m a little rusty after running around to different tourist sites and trying to think of different types of Chinese pastas to feed my noodles-addicted sister for the past week so here are just three links [...]
Posted in china, culture, tagged china, chinese reactions, earthquake, sichuan on May 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Just got back from a little trip to Guangdong, but my sister is coming today for a 10 day visit, so I won’t have much time to write anything since I’ll be her tour guide and translator around Beijing.
So let me ramble for a bit about nothing before I go meet her at that big [...]
Posted in random on May 14, 2008 | No Comments »
I will be out of town for the next four to five days, so unless I drop by a net bar, I probably won’t be posting.
Also, I will not be able to moderate comments so if you haven’t posted here before, your comment might not show up for a while.
Posted in china, politics, tagged china, politics, earthquake, sichuan, disaster, 7.8 on May 13, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Detailed Updates at Shanghaiist
I retract my previous statement in which I dismissed the earthquake as something that happens all the time. I know little about earthquakes and didn’t quite realize the significance of a 7.8 earthquake. I made a premature assumption that people were getting excessively paranoid, which was the case when people were talking [...]
Posted in china, tagged china, earthquake, sichuan on May 12, 2008 | 7 Comments »
BBC News
Xinhua News
CNN News
The Guardian
So there’s a big earthquake that hit the northwestern part of Sichuan as well as a few other earthquakes around the country. There’s all this talk about how this isn’t a very good year for China with the Darfur stuff, terrorists in Xinjiang, Tibetan protests, disruption of the torch relay, intestinal [...]
