Just think, you could be eating your Chinese food with these very same chopsticks!

Today’s unsafe export of Chinese goods comes from Beijing, where a factory has been recycling people’s used chopsticks and then reselling them without disinfecting them at all. Yummy. Beijing News says that officials there have seized about 500,000 pairs of [...]

“Honey, you’re just another tomb.”

Chinese culture is full of subtleties that take a lot of study to fully appreciate, but when it comes to motivating people, sometimes that kind of all goes out the window. Because of the surging population, China has set strict limits on how many children most couples can have. [...]

All this electrical stuff shouldn’t get wet or be touched.

I don’t think I’ll ever understand why the Chinese in general seem to like to let the temperature in their homes change with the seasons rather than keeping it one comfortable temperature year round. When I visit Chinese friends, it seems like their houses are [...]

The epitome of a strong will to live, Mr. Peng Shulin

From the I’m a loser for complaining that I have to walk across the room to turn the lights on when some people don’t even have legs desk comes this story from China. Mr. Peng Shulin was cut in half by a “lorry” (that’s [...]

Look at all that natural goodness!

The West is a pill-popping, man-made-medicine-obsessed culture. We’ve got pills to treat everything from headaches to upset stomach to erectile dysfunction, and it seems like most of the Western world likes it that way. Often when I hear traditional Chinese medicine mentioned, it gets kind of brushed aside [...]