China expects some 20,000 accredited journalists at the Olympics next summer, nearly twice the number of athletes. CW takes a look at four foreign correspondents to see what makes them tick.
Chicago Tribune correspondent Evan Osnos spent last month traveling through Sichuan by boat, bus, car, and on foot ... Read More
From pollution to staring, CW explores why expats like to complain so much.
After a three hour drive along an unfinished road in a rattling “mianbao che,” Anna Grace Carter and her husband finally reached their new home—a cement block building located on a dirt road off an empty ... Read More
Far from home, expats fill China’s sports bars to cheer on the home team.
It’s a grey and chilly Friday morning in Beijing. Twenty-five expats warm themselves with plates of breakfast, mugs of free coffee and Game 2 of the World Series at The Rickshaw, a popular bar ... Read More
China’s metal bands and headbanging fans gear up for Linkin Park’s arena rock debut.
For years the hype of Beijing rock has spread across China, passing from one mouth to another, filling blogs with words of praise and thanks. But while rock and indie bands bask in the ... Read More
Dalian made David Zere feel like a star. “People were stopping their cars in the middle of the street to talk to me. Adults were asking for my autograph. At the bar, girls were throwing their numbers at me,” says the Eritrean-American from Seattle.
Zere’s parents, who had lived ... Read More
Brian Bucsit, who was personal trainer to the rock band Pearl Jam, took a severe pay cut to come to Beijing in 2004 with his wife and son. “China was never really in my sights,” says the 35-year-old, “until my wife decided to study Sinology.”
Bucsit’s wife Katja Sassi ... Read More
When Liane Fong arrived in Shanghai last September to study Chinese at Fudan University, she found herself experiencing what many foreigners go through when they arrive in China—culture shock, language barriers and getting acquainted to a new environment, but when Chinese people asked her “Where are you from?” it ... Read More
The Single Guy
American living in Beijing, 32, Filmmaker
Day 1
9:30 a.m.
Wake up to the glory of the morning.
10:25
Take care of myself to the classic “The Devil in Ms. Jones.” There was a lot more hair everywhere in the '70s.
11:15
In ... Read More
Not long ago, a frightening e-mail circulated among Shanghai’s expat community about one man’s taxi journey. The text went something like this: A Western male teacher arrived at Shanghai’s Hongqiao Airport. He stood in line for a taxi and without incident loaded his bags in the trunk ... Read More
"You don't know sh*t about hip-hop!” yelled a Shanghai music producer while I was hanging out at The Lab, leaving me to wonder whether it was my AC/DC t-shirt or handlebar mustache that tipped him off. Apparently, my angle of how hip-hop, or at least the initial ... Read More
Madeline Clark was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when she was 11-years-old. MS, a central nervous disease in which myelin, the fatty sheath that surrounds and protects nerve fibers, is destroyed, causes nerve impulses to be slowed or halted. Her poor eyesight was the first telltale sign.
At times Clark could ... Read More
"Iwoke up with a broken bottle of Yanjing in one hand, an almost empty baijiu bottle in the other and vomit down the front of my Armani suit. Oh yeah, did I mention that I was slumped over in some hutong alley nowhere near my apartment?” asks 32-year-old American Samuel ... Read More
Ben Hails
Beijing
I don’t think expats drink more here than they do back home. The United Kingdom has recently been classified as a binge nation ... enough said? I had a trip home [to northern England] recently and was drinking on average 10 beers a day ... that's a ... Read More
When I arrived in China about two and a half years ago, I expected Beijing to be a cacophonous hodgepodge of street vendors hawking their wares. I also expected that a good part of the population would be old men in Mao suits twirling gnarled walnuts in their hands, the ... Read More
Beijing
Name: Anna Sophie Loewenberg Profession: Documentary filmmaker and host of Sexy Beijing on Danwei TV From: Los Angeles, California Came to China: Ten years ago Best thing that happened in 2006: I dumped my boyfriend, quit my shitty job, sold my car and moved back to Beijing to start ... Read More
Everyone is getting in on it. Reuters, the BBC and a growing number of major Western companies have purchased “islands” or land in SL.
The traffic is awful. Go anywhere with lots of people and you’re bound to run into gridlock, i.e. the screen slows down.
Shop to ... Read More
Don't worry, we’ll decode that for you.
Noob## new user to SL
Avatar## a digital user’s image in SL
Lindens## SL currency (310L$ = US$1)
SLurl## an SL location or web address Read More
A new sort of dynasty is growing inside a very strange online world. Second Life’s (SL) the game and Anshe Chung's the dame. The game is a virtual world where real people can live out fantasy lives through their avatars, changing their sex, shape and species at the ... Read More
The scolding from our mothers still reverberates as we sit down to each meal, "Eat your vegetables, don't you know there are children starving in China?" Today though, reports Barry Popkin, nutrition professor at the University of North Carolina, there are more obese people in the world than starving ... Read More
The preconceived notion that tattoo art in China is in its naivety and a dangerous venture to undertake is being readily challenged by Beijing's old school body art masters, and they've invited the best of the best in Asia to prove their point.
On October 2nd and 3rd ... Read More
The Lazy Guide to Finding Love
By DRAGONCAKE79
Fabulous article Nikkia! Made me chuckle. The filter option online is definit... >>