Accidents waiting to happen

As if the traffic in Chinese cities wasn’t dangerous enough, Research In Motion (RIM) has won an eight year battle to be able to sell their BlackBerry devices in China. If you don’t have one of these, you won’t understand, but if you do have one, you’ll understand why people call [...]

I came across an interesting site that sells old Chinese advertising posters like the one above. If you’re a sinophile like I am (or even if you’re not), you may want one (or more) to adorn your otherwise barren walls at your home or office. If not, I don’t like you.

Setting mom on fire is fun!

I’ve complained a lot about how Japan has done a much better job of exporting their popular culture than China has, and I’m not alone in realizing that. I think a lot of the advantage Japan has is that their sense of humor as a nation is [...]

I’m sorry….what?

I got this fortune not long ago. I can’t figure out if this one is so profound that I can’t comprehend it, or if the five o’clock bell rang so the guy just hit the period key and left.

“What did you say?”

I don’t feel like making fun of the news right now, so I thought I’d post something worthwhile. I’ve been learning Chinese for about 4 years now, and in that time I’ve come across a lot of resources for learning the language. I thought I’d post a little information here on what [...]