Another great piece on the Shanxi slavery case over at ESWN. But there's one comment in this article that bugs me: "A deputy director of the county's Publicity Department attributed the murders and maltreatment of workers to the lack of awareness of human...
Jeremiah of the Granite Studio's take on the Shanxi slave case can be found here. I haven't written much on the case, nothing more than a couple of links, because I can't figure out how. Yeah, maybe part of it is that old compassion fatigue, but really,...
Lonnie explains the drive behind the China Dream Blog. The post also includes a call for help: "David and I only want one thing from you, and it’s not money nor pats on the back (we haven’t done anything yet). The only thing we want is for you to social...
Ah well, the usual bureaucracy involved in renewing residence permits, transferring foreign expert certificates, and generally doing anything more complicated than breathing, is causing its usual round of headaches. I wouldn't have noticed had the office...
Got this message over MSN from lzh: "提醒大家,以后 麦当劳、肯德基 一定要记得要发票 麦当劳、肯德基每年在中国因为我们不 习惯要发票的原因而掠走将近20亿元的税收 把这条信息完 (不 加任何修改复制)发2个群的奖励200Q币 发3个群的奖励一个太阳300个Q币.以次类推． (此活动由中国税务局赞助)" My really bad translation: "Remind everybody, from no on at McDonalds and KFC you...
I hate having to go out to Yizhuang every Monday evening. It's not just the awkward timing of it, nor is it just the mediocre students. It's Yizhuang as a whole. Now I'd be the first to admit that my experience of Yizhuang is extremely limited. Limited...
On the way up to Yanqing on Saturday, after we'd crossed the mountains, passed Xibozi, and were on the basin floor on the way into the county town, the bus suddenly decided to go up the cycle lane on the left hand side of the road. We couldn't figure...
Lonnie of One Man Bandwidth seems to be involved in a variety of charity projects- and good on him, too- and now he's starting up The China Dreamblogue, which aims to raise money for The Library Project, which aims to provide books to under privileged...
Another excellent translation from ESWN, this time Ma Ying-Jeou (or however his name is supposed to be spelt in the dog's breakfast of romanisation that exists over on that troublesome little island) on the seven waves of immigration to Taiwan and their...
So for some strange reason lzh decided last night that she would teach me the Yanqinghua versions of 老爷们 and 老娘们. 老 爷们 in Yanqinghua is 大老爷们，and 老娘们 is 大老娘们. Doesn't look too surprising, does it? Hardly worthy of being a different dialect. Except then...
