Welcome to Chinalyst

 

The Chinalyst is an informal community for China related English blogging. The goals of the community are to encourage the growth and development of English content about China and to serve as a platform for finding and discussing up-to-date China related information and news. Chinalyst provides a steady stream of updates from member blogs writing about China.

Down here you can browse through the latest from members' China blogs. You can also add your China blog to the community after registering. There's more information in the site guide .

Video: Rude Laowai arguing with Chinese on a train

The Humanaught's picture
Submitted by The Humanaught on Wed, 2012-05-16 20:08. :: | | | |

This article was aggregated from Lost Laowai
 

Yet another for our “Bad Laowai” category. From Shanghaiist: A video now going viral on iFeng.com shows a white blonde male putting his feet over the seat before him and a Chinese female passenger’s head on a train from Shenyang to Beijing. It is not clear what happened before the start of this video, but [...]
read more »


Chinese Student Expats in America Part 2

Submitted by Milan on Mon, 2012-05-14 19:48. ::

This article was aggregated from Interactive Expat
 

After my first post about Chinese student expats in America, a reader followed up with some additional questions for LaLa.
Here are the questions from the reader and LaLa's answers:
read more »

Common China Manufacturing questions answered

Submitted by chinaworks on Fri, 2012-04-27 15:53. ::

This article was aggregated from
 

Common China Manufacturing questions answered There are some questions that we get asked by most customers, so we thought it would be helpful to share these on our blog: 1. How long are Chinese lead times? Lead times will vary by the size and type of the order, but 90% of production orders manufactured by [...]
read more »

Having a Baby in China

Submitted by Milan on Thu, 2012-04-26 22:53. ::

This article was aggregated from Interactive Expat
 

Here's another question I got today from Kristene in Seattle, WA USA:



read more »

Introducing Leiden Weibo Corpus

Submitted by Confused Laowai on Thu, 2012-04-26 11:26. :: |

This article was aggregated from
 

My inner linguistic nerd is going crazy right now. This post released today from a member of Sinoglot, Daan, reveals that he has created a large Weibo corpus. For those not familiar with term, a corpus is a large body/collectinos of text, often used in linguistic research to study trends, frequency, discoure analysis and other [...]
read more »

Li Bingbing: Gucci’s Chinese torchbearer

NicoleChen's picture
Submitted by NicoleChen on Thu, 2012-04-26 11:12. ::

This article was aggregated from
 

The brand was new in China then, having opened its first shop when Tom Ford was at the helm in 1996. At last count there were over 46 stores across china, six in Shanghai alone, its success mirroring Li Bingbing’s 
 Continue reading →
read more »


Delivering Dior to the Chinese Luxury Consumer Via DiorMag Chinese Edition

NicoleChen's picture
Submitted by NicoleChen on Thu, 2012-04-26 10:50. :: |

This article was aggregated from
 

This March, Dior launched an online fashion magazine through their website filled with articles, images, current news and product galleries divided into various sections. With this new digital venue, the brand hoped to pose itself as a storyteller, entertainer, and 
 Continue reading →
read more »


Michael Kors Opens Beijing Store, Plans Further China Expansion

NicoleChen's picture
Submitted by NicoleChen on Thu, 2012-04-26 10:41. :: |

This article was aggregated from
 

Michael Kors store has finally arrived in Beijing. The Beijing store is the brand’s fifth store in China, and its largest. The 2,400-square-foot store, which opened earlier this month, is located in the Shin Kong Place shopping  mall. The store 
 Continue reading →
read more »


Giving ChinesePod the deserved listen

Submitted by Confused Laowai on Wed, 2012-04-25 14:02. :: | | |

This article was aggregated from
 

Some kinds of media just don’t gel with certain language learners. Back in 2010, when I was still studying Chinese in undergrad classes, I gave ChinesePod a try. It just wasn’t for me. It was slow, not interesting and I just didn’t learn anything. But it wasn’t ChinesePod’s fault, it was mine. I took a [...]
read more »

Benny’s 3-Month Mandarin Mission: A Follow Up

Submitted by Confused Laowai on Tue, 2012-04-24 10:46. :: |

This article was aggregated from
 

Benny’s Mandarin mission ended about two weeks ago. Here is his post and interview with John from Sinosplice. I did a big post when he started his mission, detailing my thoughts and concerns about learning Chinese in 3 months. Like many others, I was skeptical. Why wouldn’t one be? I talked about specific Chinese problems, [...]
read more »

Hello world!

Winser Zhao's picture
Submitted by Winser Zhao on Wed, 2012-04-18 01:42. ::

This article was aggregated from
 

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
read more »


In the Heat of the Sanya Sun (Part 1)

Submitted by laosan on Fri, 2012-04-13 11:40. ::

This article was aggregated from
 

It has been a while (over a year according to my last entry) since I last sat down to type out a post. Although I’ve been remiss in my blogging responsibilities does not mean I have been doing my due diligence. Over the course of the last year I have actually collected  ((and continue to [...]
read more »

Pantry by the Co-op, Shanghai

thirstypig's picture
Submitted by thirstypig on Wed, 2012-04-11 08:50. :: | | | | | | |

This article was aggregated from
 

Some of the great jams & jelliesLocation Rating Pantry by the Co-op 90 Nanyang lu, Xikang lu, Jing’An District, Shanghai ć—é˜łè·Ż90ć·èż‘è„żćș·è·Ż +86 21 3255 7271 pantry@bytheco-op.com, http://bytheco-op.com/ Monday – Friday 7:30-18:30, Saturday & Sunday 8:30-17:00 2 Pigs Price Range 2 $/„/NT What is the Pantry The 
 Continue reading →
read more »


Fizz & Baozi event raises funds for Shanghai charity

thirstypig's picture
Submitted by thirstypig on Wed, 2012-04-11 07:58. :: |

This article was aggregated from
 

The FizzOn March the 29th, the Shanghai’s Food and Beverage industry and community got together for a fund-raising event at Bar Rouge and raised more than 15,000 RMB for charity! At the Shanghai Bund’s most famous hotspot, Bar Rouge, the cream 
 Continue reading →
read more »


Changing Geography Of China’s Brandscape

Submitted by Ray Ally on Mon, 2012-04-09 07:53. ::

This article was aggregated from
 

Photo: Ray Ally When most people talk about China, they often think of it as one country. After all Mao Tse-tung and the communist party have spent the last 60 years trying to unite the country. Creating one party, one political system and introduced one language, Putonghua (common speech) to achieve this goal. However, for [...]
read more »

glo London, Shanghai

thirstypig's picture
Submitted by thirstypig on Mon, 2012-04-09 03:00. :: | | | | | |

This article was aggregated from
 

The big potato wedges were pretty goodLocation Rating glo London äčŒéČæœšéœè·Ż1ć· èż‘äžœćčłè·Ż 1 Wulumuqi Lu, near Dongping Lu +86 21 6466-6565 shanghai@glolondon.com www.glolondon.com 1 Pigs Price Range 2 $/„/NT What is glo London glo London made a big splash in Shanghai’s restaurant scene with a multilevel 
 Continue reading →
read more »


Simple Calculations Lecture One

MyLaowai's picture
Submitted by MyLaowai on Mon, 2012-04-02 04:12. ::

This article was aggregated from
 

Life can, in many ways, be reduced to simple mathematical equations. Pythagoras can be credited (or blamed) with first coming up with this concept. Pythagoras was an ancient Chinese philosopher from the Chinese province of Samos who believed that all things could be reduced to mathematical concepts. His work was taken seriously by other Chinese [...]
read more »


‘Investigation of the Actual Implementation Status of the ‘Two Evidence Rules’

Submitted by jeremy daum on Sat, 2012-03-10 01:54. ::

This article was aggregated from
 

Renmin University Professor Chen Weidong recently put notes online from a conference he moderated on the current implementation status of the Two Evidence Rules released in 2010. Participants from academia and practice, courts and law enforcement, voiced their optimism about the new rules before airing their many concerns and complaints. Below is a hasty and sloppy translation of his notes.
read more »

A slap between spouses: Can law solve the problem?

Submitted by jeremy daum on Fri, 2012-03-09 06:42. ::

This article was aggregated from
 

On the 27th, the All-China Women's Federation released statistics from the third Survey of Women's Status in Chinese Society. In the course of their marriage, 24.7% of married women have suffered some form of domestic violence.
read more »

Chuhehanjie!

Submitted by SHTig on Mon, 2012-03-05 13:50. :: | | |

This article was aggregated from
 

Something to check out on my next visit to Wuhan is the “Chu River / Han Street” area (chuhehanjie, 愚æČłæ±‰èĄ—). Basically, they took the point where the tunnel under the Yangtze River comes out in Wuchang and extended the road across the Sha Hu, the large lake in the middle of Wuchang between the (even [...]
read more »

Looking for Sanity for SaaS contracts – an Epilogue

Submitted by chinaesq on Wed, 2012-02-22 22:12. ::

This article was aggregated from
 

I had just finished up my series entitled Looking for Sanity for Saas Contracts (parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5) when I received an issue of PLC Intellectual Property & Technology from Practical Law Company in the mail.  Guess what’s on page 34?  An detailed checklist for SaaS agreements that shows what the Client/Customer [...]
read more »