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Watch? Bag? Sorry, no good DVDs.
It has recently come to my attention that DVD stores in Shanghai are starting to suck, and suck real bad. Last time I went down to my local store, the shelves were 95% empty with the dregs of mediocre TV shows like Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory -
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. -
Spotted: Wuyuan Road’s backwards-walking fitness guru in summer gear
Backwards-walking improv-weights dude was spotted on Saturday, July 24th. Rocking board shorts and high tops, this guy means business. Notice the larger and presumably heavier weights in the recent photo. Jiayou! -
Why Twitter and Facebook are Blocked in China
Anyway, rather than banging on about our lack of status updates, or whatever, we here at Shlaowai HQ have artfully employed our understanding of geopolitics in order to get to the bottom of this seemingly bottomless vexation. -
Confessions of a Shlaowai
Forgive me Father Mao, for I have sinned. I confess that, since moving to China, I have... -
The Most Uninteresting China Post You Will Ever Read
One thing we at Shlaowai have always been absolutely sure about is our mutual disdain for Western media coverage of China. -
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Over the previous two months of Shanghai Expo operations, interesting testaments on the true nature of the Shanghai Expo have emerged. -
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.”