Approximately 81,000 foreign experts were employed in Shanghai at the end of 2011, a total encompassing 17 percent of all foreign experts working in China. The total has increased by a third since 2005. more ›

Li Yang, the self-styled evangelist of the English language who's known around China for his high energy, high intensity Crazy English lessons, is in trouble. A woman, believed to be his American wife Kim Lee, has gone on Sina Weibo to accuse him of domestic violence, and she has the pictures to prove it. more ›

Around 11pm on Wednesday, a local doctor in a Wenzhou, Zhejiang hospital was attacked by two men, one Italian and one Chinese, after the men became irate that no preferential treatment was offered to the injured father of the Italian expat. Objects were hurled at the doctor, who was reportedly rendered deaf in one ear after an eardrum was perforated from being slapped in the face. more ›

Not sure how we missed this, but Feichang Fresh, supposedly China's hottest laowai boyband, has this catchy little love song for Beijing that went pretty big after airing on CCTV in May. The boyband was formed by a group of foreign students at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing. Check out the English translation of the song here. Also check out another of their songs here.
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Riding on the current revival of "red songs", this crazy laowai has done an autotuned hip hop version of the song "映山红", or Ode to the Azalea, where he sings alongside a Chinese partner in crime. Little is known about the identity of the laowai (we'd appreciate any tips), but the video has attracted quite a fair bit of attention, chalking up over half a million views on Sina alone in just one week. He is of course, not the first laowai to be singing red songs. Back in 2008, Honglaowai, a shirtless New Yorker became an instant online celebrity by singing red songs. more ›

Yet another foreigner caught on camera going crazy. This refined Canadian gentleman appears to have a few small problems with the most recent policy changes at the train ticket window, namely "It's 2011! Chairman Mao is dead! No! CHINESE PEOPLE NEED TO LEARN BRAINS AND WHAT FREEDOM IS!" more ›

We missed this when it first hit the net but "China's hottest Laowai boyband strikes once again! This time An Dong, Chen Zhi Xiong and Wei Xiang sing about having a secret crush on a girl. How will she react when she finds out?" more ›

World of Chinese puts into graph form what, after days of fireworks exploding against your windows, some of you may be beginning to feel. For a bigger version of the graph, click here. more ›

About a week ago, we featured a trailer we had discovered on Vimeo of a locally filmed romantic drama called "Lao Wai." The director, Fabien Gaillard, has now contacted us to say that it is in fact screening in Shanghai... tonight! more ›

Trawling through Vimeo brought our attention to this China-made French movie called "Laowai," which from the trailer, looks to be about a French guy who plays at the JZ Club (and who just happens to be Lions of Puxi member Gauthier Roubichou) and his relationship with a Chinese girl. more ›

It's probably safe to say that Miss Laowai 2010, the beauty contest specifically for foreign women residing in Beijing, was a completely ridiculous and inadvertently entertaining fiasco. Now the organizers are following up... with a Mr. Laowai version. more ›

Yesterday, Chinasmack posted up another one of those Chinese people hating on foreign guys who get with Chinese chicks translations which was... well, you've seen one, you've seen them all. But it piqued the curiosity of C. Custer at china/divide, who felt that a lot of the assumptions (especially things like disrespecting Chinese women and being a Mainland version of FILTH) just didn't seem to be true. So he devised a little poll (for foreigners) to see if at least the readership at china/divide was like that. So if you are a laowai, wai not try it out? more ›

It probably goes without saying that if the expat experience in China is a unique one, then the black expat experience here is even more so. While the country (or at least the bigger cities) has at least gotten used to seeing Caucasian foreigners and realizing that, though they're foreigners, they're still people (kind of), black foreigners cause double takes. more ›

Did you think that your ability to choke down chicken feet, speak Chinese with your business partners, or play a game of Chinese checkers makes you more Chinese? Well, Hong Huang, the irreverent proprietor of the media empire that owns iLook magazine, wants to let you know that you're wrong: you'll never assimilate, because you're not Chinese. And while you're at it (not being Chinese, that is), don't touch chicken feet, sea cucumbers, or firecrackers: it pisses Chinese people off when you do, because you just don't understand why they're important in the first place. more ›

If you always wanted to be a homecoming queen, a model, or a contestant on Oriental Angel, you may want to set your sights on the 2010 Miss Laowai China beauty pageant. The competition is sort of like the Miss Universe competition- one competitor per country will be chosen as a representative for the entire country- but only for expats in China. We're still not sure if this is a joke or a hoax, but it's certainly entertaining! more ›

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... and going with strange girls who want to practise their English to coffee shops is STILL a bad idea, folks. Yet another chump — this time a Swedish guy on a business trip — has fallen for the time-honoured scam by following a pair of temptresses who were "dressed like university students" (so wearing mortar boards, presumably) to the Manabe coffee shop on the 3rd floor of the Brilliance Shimao Plaza, Shanghai Daily reported... more ›

The Red Laowai (红老外) — yes, that shirtless dude in New York that's been singing communist propaganda songs such as “My China Heart"《我的中国心》, "Without the Communist Party, there is no New China"《没有共产党就没有新中国》and "Oriental Red"《东方红》and putting his videos online — has done it again. This time, he has put his shirt on, created a music video and he's singing Jay Chou and rapping. The song 止战之殇 (The Wound That Ends War) is an anti-war song in... more ›