Chengdu Living just posted an article entitled Five Must-See Websites to Advance Your Chinese. If your Chinese has become stagnant, why not check it out?

Anybody who’s been to China knows that sights like the one above are extremely common here. It seems that the whole diaper thing that the rest of the world uses never really caught on here in China. So it’s not uncommon to see small children (and even children who seem [...]

Recently, a friend of mine who is having a ‘bad China year’ has been complaining a lot about how uncreative Chinese society as a whole is. I can understand where he’s coming from. He’s an extremely creative person in his own right: he’s a graphic artist who has his [...]

I just came across this BBC article about how China is enacting a new law on May 1st that will officially ban smoking “in places like bars, restaurants, and buses, but not workplaces.” Please, oh please, let this work. There are about a zillion “no smoking” signs around this country, but [...]

China, the land of 麻烦 (mafan)! For those of you who don’t know what mafan is, it basically means trouble or inconvenience. And China is chock full of it. In some ways, this has to be the most inconvenient place on earth to live…