Recent Posts
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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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Z-San Archive
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Purple Mangosteens
No, I am not talking about the Mango's jewish mother-in-law. For those of you not in the know, Mangosteens, or 山竹 (shanzhu) in Chinese, are pretty much god's gift to humanity. -
Donald’s Bad Day
You ever wake up and just have one of those days? Nothing goes your way and your mood sours from bad to outright angry. Well last weekend that was all put in perspective when I experienced purchasing a live duck in China. -
Hangzhou is Funny
This wouldn’t be a good China-expat blog if we weren’t posting funny things in China that only foreigners would laugh at. -
Chinese Hospitals and Guanxi
Having guanxi in a Chinese hospital can be the difference between life and death. Shlaowai takes a closer look at the conditions for patients in the Chinese health system. -
iPhone Schmiphone: 3G Life in China
My ever-faulty Sony Ericsson finally died last week and I decided it was time to treat myself to an iPhone. Here is what I learned. -
A Star is Born
It's official. Baby Francesca and Z-San have arrived on the scene. We recently entered a contest to determine the cutest couple in China. -
AK47 and the Marriage Market
It started like any other conversation in the Shlaowai headquarters. Baby Francesca, AK47 and I were discussing topics for our blog when a new idea was proposed: "what if we put up an ad for AK47 in the People's Park Marriage Market (人民公园相亲角)," -
When in Doubt, Say “对” (dui)
I recently had the fine opportunity to videotape AK47 while he was attempting to purchase train tickets to Shanghai. As a friend, I thought it would be a nice gesture to record him... -
先下后上 Part 2: The Breakdown
I feel the reality of the current situation more closely resembles "先上后下“ (xian shang hou xia) which would translate to: "I'm getting on this subway now and I don't care if your bitchass is trying to get off". Don't believe me? Take a look: -
Put Down the Microphone!
KTV is not meant for laowais. I don't really know why this happens but, without fail, every laowai I know that tries to sing at KTV ends up making an utter fool of themselves.