Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 54* A Visit from the Earplugs and Beer Man ‘Twas the night before Xmas and all through the city, Not a whore was motionless, not even the un-pretty. The sausages hung from the wires with care, In hopes that Sheng Dan Lao Ren soon would be there. The foreigners [...]
Dec 25, 2010 | Categories: China, Nanjing, Totally Awesome Picture of the Week | Tags: Chinese, chinglish, christmas, Foreigners in China, Humor, Poetry | Leave A Comment »
On this holiday in 2008 the Olympic torch passed over the quaint dam nearby and into our city of Yichang. This year’s big event, best known as Swine Flu, made a surprise appearance in the form of an alleged Nanjing city-wide mandate for foreigners to be quarantined (in their personal apartments) for a week upon [...]
Jun 01, 2009 | Categories: China, Nanjing, NEWS FLASH, Yichang | Tags: Children's Day, Foreigners in China, Humor, kids with toy guns, little emperor, one child policy, quarantine, social commentary, spoiled brats, swine flu, tired parents | Leave A Comment »
Mar 12, 2009 | Categories: China, What Are Sidewalks For, Yichang | Tags: chinese construction, Foreigners in China, hole in the sidewalk, Humor, lao wai, streets, trapping people, traps | Leave A Comment »
Nanjing, CHINA – A recent series of public posters hopes to bolster the average Chinese person’s understanding of foreign emotions through the study of common facial expressions. The posters, which are a project of a local magazine, display eight “faces,” each meant to represent a particular feeling, attitude, or intention, all of which have been [...]
Mar 03, 2009 | Categories: America, China, Nanjing, NEWS FLASH | Tags: Foreigners in China, George Bush, Humor, public service posters, understanding laowai | 1 Comment »
Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 46 Come one, come all! Witness a rip-roarin’ hair-pullin’ old fashioned good-timey ruckus down here at The Agricultural Extravaganza! Worth the pain and so much more! Less costly than that mini-skirt four-inch stiletto ensemble you’ve been flashing from your bicycle all over town! Created domestically for the domestics! Reduces [...]
Oct 28, 2008 | Categories: China, Totally Awesome Picture of the Week | Tags: crowds, Expat, extravaganza, farmer's market, Fashion, Foreigners in China, hair things, mannequin, social commentary, stampedes, suffocation | Leave A Comment »
Nanjing, CHINA – In effort to more accurately describe their society as a whole, China has stopped the excessive use of phrases such as “One World, One Dream” and “Stronger, Swifter, Higher, Faster,” and instead adopted the term “Zero Delicacy.” Created earlier this month after years of research by The People’s Central Search Committee for [...]
Oct 24, 2008 | Categories: China, NEWS FLASH | Tags: campaigns, Chinese, chinese behavior, Foreigners in China, slogans, social commentary, zero delicacy | Leave A Comment »
Due to the movement of foreign-financed sweatshops to less powerful and less demanding nations like Vietnam and Cambodia, many Chinese nationalists have begun to test their creative impulses and luck in the garment industry. With an abundance of leftover Western-style dummies at their disposal, aspiring designers can finally dress life-size foreigners to their pleasing. The [...]
Aug 17, 2008 | Categories: China, Very Fashion China | Tags: Expat, fashion blunder, foreigner, Foreigners in China, Humor, mannequin, Ridiculous, social commentary, Western education | Leave A Comment »
Dear Woman Who Handed Me Her Baby and Began to Walk Away, Not cool. I don’t know which I was more afraid of: you running off and leaving the snoring little creature in my hands, or the snoring little creature releasing its processed meal through its assless pants and onto my hands. Though we smiled [...]
Jun 02, 2008 | Categories: China, Letters to Whomever, Yichang | Tags: babies, Chinese, Expat, Foreigners in China, Ridiculous | 1 Comment »
Dear Young Man Using Your Motorcycle to Blow Bubbles in the Yangtze, I don’t know who you impressed more: us, the woman doing her laundry, or the man soaking his motorcycle downstream. To be honest, your objective was unclear. Our top three theories as to what exactly it was that you were doing are: 1. [...]
Apr 30, 2008 | Categories: China, Letters to Whomever, Videos, Yichang | Tags: Anti-Environmentalism, Chinese, Expat, Foreigners in China, Magic, Nationalism, Pollution, Progress, Ridiculous, Yangtze | 1 Comment »
What Are Sidewalks For? Answer #21
Jun 14, 2009 | Categories: China, Nanjing, What Are Sidewalks For | Tags: animal treatment in China, chinese street vendors, Foreigners in China, pets, sidewalks, social commentary | 1 Comment »