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Liar Liar Pants on Fire
28 February 2011 9:29 PM | 3 CommentsLie of the Day: "We'll never seek economic growth rate and big size at the price of environment," - Wen Jiabao. Thanks for the laugh big guy.
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10,000 Miles Later and One Less Car-less Mongolian Child
23 February 2011 2:50 PM | 1 CommentWe spoke with Abandon the Cube in June before they set off on their journey, and now they’re back and, surprisingly, alive to tell us the answers to the most important questions.
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Meditations on Minorities
18 February 2011 6:19 PM | 2 CommentsUighurs. Lots of things come to mind when I think about them dudes. Two of the more "serious" or "responsible" or even "ethical" thoughts I have are as follows:
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Calling for an Asian Hollywood Invasion
18 February 2011 4:25 PM | No CommentsLots of supporting roles seem to go to Asian-American actors, and from a personal standpoint I see a lot more diversity in Hollywood now than 10 or 15 years ago. But the Asian lead is still a scarcity in the American film industry.
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Uighurs: The Shocking Truth Revealed!
17 February 2011 2:39 PM | 9 CommentsWhy do Chinese people strongly dislike Uighurs? Why does the CCP censor news articles relating to the minority group? Why? Why? Why? All answers revealed in this shocking piece of journalistic mastery!
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Ween Archive
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10,000 Miles Later and One Less Car-less Mongolian Child
We spoke with Abandon the Cube in June before they set off on their journey, and now they’re back and, surprisingly, alive to tell us the answers to the most important questions. -
Better Migrant Workers, Better City
I meant to post this back in November or December, but, you know, Angry Birds. It's a picture from outside the Rockbund Art Museum when I was there for the exhibit ‘By Day, By Night, or Some (Special) Things a Museum Can Do’. -
New Year. New Shlaowai. New You.
It’s the new year. Again. When did that happen? Who died and made it okay to not tell me that time was passing by at breakneck speeds and I needed to look up from Angry Birds or I would miss it? -
Sitting at the Horse’s Table
Lately I’ve been grappling with something. I don’t know why it just came to me now, but since it has I’ve been thinking about it a lot and see it is a good example of the internal conflict we have as long-term expats in China. -
A Predictable Unpredictability
It’s pretty apparent that sellers of 10 kuai umbrellas outside Shanghai’s Metro stations during unexpected downpours have mastered the Law of Murphy: someone’s bound to forget an umbrella on a rainy day. -
10,000 Miles for Car-less Mongolian Children
There’s a saying: “When life gets too safe and comfortable, put yourself in a one-liter engine car that’s wholly unfit to drive 10,000 miles, and then drive 10,000 miles until you get to Mongolia.” -
Hu Giveth, and then Hu Taketh Away
Why the government (intentionally? unintentionally?) unblocked a site that was essentially Twitter is beyond my capacity or attention span to comprehend, but it was, for a fleeting moment as I was soon to find out, awesome. -
Want to sleep in my bed?
Here's your chance! I'm selling my limited edition IKEA 4-poster bedframe and mattress and I'm shamelessly advertising it on Shlaowai. -
Zhujiajiao: The Venice of Qingpu
The story of our epic journey – one that symbolizes a) how cheap China is b) the variability of activities we have available to us in Shanghai and c) how lazy I am. -
Oscar’s: Underrated and not just for the Over-the-Hill’d
Just because I have your undivided attention, I’m gonna use it to shamelessly plug places that I love in SH and that I feel really don’t get the credit they deserve. First: Oscar’s Pub.