The honesty system probably would have worked longer than two days in most countries, though. Christ, China, don't you ever get sick of embarrassing yourself? Full Comment>>

The last time these people got offered a chance to pick through their neighbor's belongings, the Cultural Revolution happened. The supermarket never stood a chance. Although, two days is pretty embarrassing. Full Comment>>

Eh, this is nothing but Chinese greed run amok from both parties. Chinese tourists--did you ever think that a 100 yuan tour package through Guangxi province sounded sketchy, or did you just laugh at how 'stupid' the company must be to offer it and think that you were really 'clever' by taking advantage of it? ... Full Comment>>

To be fair, I think Australians also probably think that it is funny because this behavior isn't part of their day to day life. If people are this greedy, stupid, and shallow in the West, they are at least smart enough to hide it. I used to think it was funny when Chinese just talked like that...until I realized ... Full Comment>>

Lots of points here: --What would you define as a compliment to a woman? It is a situational and specific thing. Context matters. And bringing my nationality into a discussion about objectification and cheap sexualisation tactics vs. art just seems like deflection to me... --If you think that having nude photos of ... Full Comment>>

I disagree. The guy's blog has the dudebro name of WANIMAL. He does nudes of WOMEN, but there is no mention of also doing nudes of MEN. This is objectification, reducing the woman to sex because sex sells. It not progressivism. If he wants to call it art--what is his message? Is there a larger theme involved here, ... Full Comment>>

The US wishes that American companies that innovate quality creative products didn't have their profits undermined by Chinese copycats, crappy fake products, and corporate espionage. The Chinese don't like American made porn. We can all quibble about the greater annoyance here. Full Comment>>

I can't help but suspect that tobacco is a convenient way for China to hide its other problem. I have to imagine Chinese autopsy reports that read something like, 'This guy's lungs are full of tar. He must have been breathing shit his whole life...because he is a SMOKER!' And then giving no other reason. Full Comment>>

Nature is harsh like that. I lived in the mountains when I was young, and plenty of well-prepared people would go for excursions, only to die because the unforeseeable happened. Or they miscalculated the silliest thing. You can't always outfox the wilderness, and when things go wrong away from civilization, there ... Full Comment>>

Yup. The Chinese real estate market is pretty much a copy of history, isn't it. Chinese can't stop themselves from copying things. Full Comment>>

Mostly because they court international student dollars from you know where. I actually think that quality will rise once the student loan bubble collapses, takes out the weak institutions, and makes them realize that unrealisticly high fees are not the way to do business. Full Comment>>

Hahaha, pretty much every university in China is a diploma mill compared to Western ones. I'm not even allowed to fail students. Full Comment>>

I love his sell. 'My parents won't pay my graduate school fees, so now I am standing around shirtless in Chongqing until some woman who can afford to have anything in life realizes that she must have me! Llllaaadddiiieess? Full Comment>>

Yet another casualty of Little Emperor syndrome, I assume. Full Comment>>

"If you date a loser, you lose face." And publicising that litany of crazy (at least according to GeoHisTeacher's wife's translation) that you compiled after 4 years of unsuccessfully trying to get a suitable man to date you does what? Gain face? I Full Comment>>

Because then he would lose face. So much better to get killed by driving a car that looks like a kid's toy around Shanghai. Full Comment>>

I just hope she wasn't reporting on a refugee crisis, or kidnapped children, or something, while people whinged that her Apple watch didn't match her outfit. That would be so...unsurprising... Full Comment>>

Cheap freeloaders get screwed by abusive con artists? How very...China. Full Comment>>

I hope they do it--the subway lines in Beijing are out of control. You can't go two stops on lines 10 or 1 without hearing that awful music and knowing, in your heart, that some miserable peasant with a dream of sending more than 10,000rmb of naive people's money to his village will be making a beeline for the laowai. Full Comment>>

12-2pm? What industrious city of go-getters do you inhabit? Good luck getting any public pfficial in Chengdu to work for you between 12-3pm. Full Comment>>

How do you know a waiguoren did not hypnotize him and make him do the dirty foreigner behavior? Poor, virtuous Chinese males have been persecuted by foreigners in more insidious ways... Full Comment>>

Chinese are not nearly farsighted enough to care about repeat business. It's why people here will give terrible service, or flat-out steal the first time around. There are so many people in China that the next customer will come in right after you leave. So says their logic. Full Comment>>

I feel like there is much more to the story. If Chinese staff admitted that the idiots asked for it, then they asked for it. Chinese almost always side with each other, for right or wrong--so if the staff sided with the foreigners, it means Mr. Lanzhou and his Xian friend were seriously out of line. Full Comment>>

I'm disappointed, echinacities commentators. No one has considered that NaNa woke up ine day and realized that she was married to a 13 year old boy? Seriously,the pathetic child wanted his revenge, but didn't want a divorce because he would end up losing face, not finding another wife (it's hard to find women ... Full Comment>>

I worked with a woman who had previously worked for the CI in her university. The stories she told! She said she once knocked on a visiting teacher's door...and the woman answered wearing no pants and demanding to know when a maid would come to clean apartment. She said that she had to discipline one teacher for ... Full Comment>>