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On Delayed Language Acquisition 27 Aug 2013 | 06:24 am
JP recently finished studying Chinese at the Monterey Institute, and he said something that caught my attention: Ok, how’s my Chinese now? It’s better than when I started. I’ve certainly seen a lot o...
Text Message Fraud (a sample) 20 Aug 2013 | 06:22 am
Photo by .sl. on Flickr There’s a fair amount of text message (SMS) fraud going on in China, and if you have cell phone number here, you’re likely to receive this type of text at some point. As a for...
China, the Country of the Blind 13 Aug 2013 | 06:32 am
Photo by Iris River on Flickr I recently read H.G. Wells’ short story The Country of the Blind, and it immediately struck me how relevant this story is to western visitors of China in modern times. I...
Coke’s Creative Campaign Can’t Hold Off the Tablet Wars 8 Aug 2013 | 07:27 am
This big ad space in Zhongshan Park displayed massive iPad ads for the longest time, after which it was covered by Microsoft Surface ads. Just briefly, it was home to this Coke ad: The ad reads: 和 型...
13 Euphemisms for Sex in Chinese 6 Aug 2013 | 06:35 am
We all know that Chinese can be a little challenging to learn, and one of the reasons is cultural. Certain topics are not talked about openly by most Chinese, or at least not directly. Enter the euphe...
Thoughts on Summer Blockbuster “Pacific Rim” in China 1 Aug 2013 | 07:23 am
Last night I went to see the movie Pacific Rim at Shanghai’s newest, biggest mall, Global Harbor. My hopes were not super high, but I ended up really enjoying the film. I had totally forgotten that it...
Tracking the Evolution of the Slang Word “Diaosi” 30 Jul 2013 | 06:19 am
The Chinese slang word 屌丝 (meaning approximately “loser”) has become pretty popular in recent years, thanks to the internet. Of course it’s got its own Baidu Baiku entry (in Chinese), and you can find...
Help with the Chinese Usage Dictionary 25 Jul 2013 | 06:38 am
Yale University has a great Chinese Usage Dictionary with 85 entries. Only problem is that it uses the deprecated HTML practice of frames, and the links in the left sidebar are not right. You actually...
Door Door 23 Jul 2013 | 05:57 am
Here’s a Chinese door that not-so-subtly reminds you it’s a door: “Door” in Chinese is written 門 in traditional Chinese, and 门 in simplified. Obviously, the character above is traditional. Unfortuna...
A More Complete iOS Solution to the China GPS Offset Problem 16 Jul 2013 | 07:15 am
This is a guest post by a friend, [unnamed for now]. It goes quite in-depth into China’s GPS issue, which I’ve complained about here before. The hope is that, armed with the following information, non...
