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EL JEFE, the strange words at the end of each section are inside jokes about teaching English. Some of them are common Chinglish, others are 'Kai En' words, littered throughout the textbooks and over...

Great article, Tiffany. I found out the hard way my parents were 'old' when they first came to visit me in China. Of course, like most Westerners, their holidays are mostly in the summer - the worst...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but that ball looks suspiciously too small compared with the enormous basket. I think Wen was using a girl's ball, or perhaps even a kid's (there are different sizes). Looks...

How about punishing some of the passengers, many of whom are the real tools. I love when they all stand up in mid-taxi to get their bags out of the overhead compartments and the flight attendants hav...

Five mascots is supposed to generate five times more revenue, and revenue is the only reason I can see for having more than one. I was ticked the moment they came out with them for such an obvious mo...

Sweet post!...

Just came back through Pudong airport terminal 2 yesterday. There are new radioactive material sensors to pass through after you pick up your luggage and you have to pass your bags through the x-ray ...

It's summer now so people are sleeping outside at night. Guess they need to wear pajamas. Not sure what they do in the home, but when wearing pajamas on the streets, most Shanghainese have underwe...

A lot of the people I've met in Shanghai brush their teeth in the morning when they wake up, then at night before sleep. In between they eat three meals - that's right - they brush their teeth before...

@ Pirx, How long have you been in China? Do you speak Chinese? The masses do not always obey and agree. People who travel will be grumbling over this. Plus those who have enough cash to travel a...

A lot of older locals believe donating blood is risky, health-wise, especially for women. My father-in-law reacted with something between surprise and horror when my wife told him she'd given blood. ...

A B - why? "a perfectly reasonable conclusion is that heaven and earth is angry at the activities of the Dailai Lama and other Tibetan extremists." Talk about seeing what you want to see? Couldn't ...

Was on the 14th floor of a building between The Bund and Peoples' Square. Must have been on bedrock - we never felt a thing....

Gorbachev is routinely criticized here. Glasnost - it is claimed - was his biggest mistake, and only led the Soviet Union to lose its peripheral states (Eastern Europe), the breakup of the Union, and...

I call it 蓝牙 (lanya) - which means 'bluetooth' in Chinese. I really hope they didn't spend hundreds of thousands of dollars getting some marketing firm to draw up that pathetic mascot. The Beijing...