expats

John Guise is a Canadian who came to Shanghai on a whim — and for a girl — after been laid off from his newspaper job in August of 2003. Four years later and he’s no longer with the girl (she moved to Japan and he found love with someone much better) but he’s has become pretty good at Mandarin, seen a large portion of the country — including a lot of factories — and spent nearly three years working at an advertising/trade media company as a copywriter for the workshops of the world. He currently does marketing for a consulting firm in Shanghai.
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One of the greatest frustrations for many foreigners when they begin working in China is the inability for many people to say one simple word: no. Saying the ‘n’ word sounds easy, but it is actually, for the vast majority of us, incredibly difficult. Whether one does not have the ability to do something or [...]
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http://ChinaHopeLive.net

... a Canadian-American couple with M.A.s in Intercultural Studies trying to live into and love - and some days just survive - China.

The mini-victories, potholes, questions, misperceptions, complaints, amateur documentaries, and people from our daily stumblings through the intercultural terrain all make regular appearances here, along with the occasional cultural analysis geekfest piece betraying the fact that we probably spent way too long in grad school.
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Sinocidal: The best thing since sliced Tibetans.

A vote for Sinocidal is a vote to help feed starving babies.