In my post on House of Cards, I mentioned that there was very little censorship of foreign TV shows in China; licensed websites have most shows people want to watch from back home available for streaming as soon as they air. It seems that officials at the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and […]
Every laowai in China makes a few mistakes here that he will regret forever. I’m not talking about major things like not learning enough Chinese or not immersing oneself in the culture enough — just daily decisions we wish we hadn’t gotten ourselves into. Mine is when I signed up to join a SPA. And […]
The other day, a major state-owned media outlet published an opinion piece that basically was just a gleeful trashing of Ambassador Gary Locke as he departed China and his posting here. The article focused on the fact that Locke, a Chinese-American who arrived in China in 2011 to great fanfare and admiration, actually turned out […]