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China-friendly New Year’s Resolutions for Laowais

Joel — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 07:59:00 -0600

What could a lǎowài (老外) do in 2009 to better adjust to life in China? The list below contains some of the ideas I’ve collected (they’re not all mine), and I’m curious to hear what other ideas are out there. Bonus points for creativity, usefulness, and doability. Mucho uber bonus points if [...]
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A foreigner’s perspective with Steven Weathers

The Humanaught — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:31:00 -0600

Recently I was in Shanghai as part of the China 2.0 tour. Though much of the tour revolved around visiting local Web companies, the organizers did provide us with some high-class networking opportunities.
During one such event, at Shanghai’s newest hotspot M1NT, an enthusiastic stranger came up to me and slipped a USB flash drive into [...]
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One-Eyed Panda's Journal

One-Eyed Panda — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:34:37 -0600

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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The ‘N’ Word

China Business Success Stories — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:37:00 -0600

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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China Hope Live

Joel — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:36:53 -0500

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 - 5 guys hanging around in China

TaiTai — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:55:51 -0500

Sinocidal: The best thing since sliced Tibetans.

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