careless planning (squared)+ too much money=your average Chinese enterprise. Not that I think they care what Westerners think--but I seem to recall a popular Western saying about people who need to make/have the biggest things... Full Comment>>

No one looks good in this article. Qu sounds like a rich brat who liked to flash his parents' money, and inevitably met up with the kind of shameless gold digger type who likes to attach herself to boys who flash Daddy's credit cards. And the thing about the types of rich-brat foreigners (I've met my share...it's ... Full Comment>>

Shandongren be crazy. Wouldn't expect anything less from the province that kicked off the Boxers. Full Comment>>

This is exactly why I stopped working with kids in China. In this country, no social behavior is too tacky, no action too stupid, the potential cost to other human beings never too much, when it comes to pampering your brat. Full Comment>>

If I get killed in China, I want my family to write me the following epitaph: "Here lies RachelDid. Caring sister. Loving daughter. Should have learned Japanese." Full Comment>>

For a free experience actually being in a horror movie, fly China Southern. Full Comment>>

I've never been to Shang Hai, but I've met plenty of women from there. All of whom were batshit insane. I am not even exaggerating--every ShangHainese woman I have met, no matter how long I knew her, ended up being a certifiable nut jobs, and that is by China standards of crazy. I won't go into all the details of ... Full Comment>>

No one has a dog with that kind of monetary worth contingent on the bitch's virginity in their possession, takes it to a dog fair, and pays so little attention to what is going on that a male dog seizes the opportunity to mount her. So, I call BS. Even if it weren't BS, Mr. Lin has a point--dogs hump. It's the ... Full Comment>>

Someone had too much coffee that morning... Full Comment>>

I've heard something similar, but not quite the same, in Japan. Apparently, professional 'actors' rent themselves out to pose as family members for lonely people. I'd say something condemnatory, but it's not as if Westerners don't isolate themselves and loved ones in fast-paced lifestyles, either. It's sad, no ... Full Comment>>

That's what I'm hoping will happen. I'm sick of my salary prospects getting constantly driven down by a sea of idiotic alcoholic pricks with no degree, no certificate (or a 20 dollar one they got from the internet), and no work ethic or any other standard. To say nothing of having to weather the stereotype of the ... Full Comment>>

Lol...I kind of wish I could go back to the shitty training-center-for-children circus that I first worked at in China, just to see how those bozos plan on riding out the new policies. I managed to squeeze a Z out of them (I would have left those a-holes in a week if I hadn't), but they largely thrived on keeping ... Full Comment>>

I really wish my own country took its visa policy half as seriously as China. Full Comment>>

My thoughts, exactly. With parents as self-indulgent as these, the poor girl never had a chance. And it is the height of self-indulgence to resort to repeated suicidal theatrics (that always 'just happen' to take place in front of attentive neighbors who can stop the attempt from actually going through), that you ... Full Comment>>

I used to streak all the time...it was a tradition in my college. Then, I graduated, got an adult life, and handled the stresses created by the constraints of my modern life (what does that even mean? is the modern life really more stressful than the one where you farmed 15 hours a day and died of the plague at 40? ... Full Comment>>

It's disgusting what these criminals are doing, but every time I hear stories like this, I have to shake my head at how stupid these foreigners are. I'm not a man, and I don't solicit prostitutes, but, for crying out loud...is it really a smart idea to have that kind of cash value on you at any time, in the first ... Full Comment>>

Don't wearing disguisting stockings defeat the point of wearing short skirts/dresses/shorts? Maybe I just don't get fashion... Full Comment>>

This sounds half economic opportunism on the part of little DongDong's parents, and half of that obnoxious hysteria that Chinese get whenever a kid get so much as a bump or a scratch. It's why I can't work with children in this country--unless they are unnaturally shielded from EVERYTHING, you had better believe the ... Full Comment>>

Who, exactly, did they poll? No one asked me--the Beijing airport is ok to arrive at, but departing is hell. It's not the worst airport of my travel experience, but the Dulles/IAD is a well-organized luxury tour next to it. Full Comment>>

Poor guy. I learned to always have my address in Hanzi on my person the hard way, too. Those situations suck, but they end up becoming good stories once the shock and embarrassment wears off. I've actually come to sort of like getting lost in a new Chinese city when I travel; you aren't going to wind up in a ... Full Comment>>

Lol, please tell me you made Pussy up. Full Comment>>

I never feel pity for people who get busted for drugs in East Asia. EA countries have never hidden the fact that they are tough on drugs in a death penalty sort of way...if these idiots haven't gotten the memo, there never was hope for them to begin with. Full Comment>>

Who thinks it is a good idea to be flashing around that kind of money in front of someone and then falling asleep with them in the room? I know they say never blame the victims...but some people just push that saying... Full Comment>>

The critical flaw in the argument is that it is childlike, and, honestly a part of the 'blame others for everything' attitude that permeates PRC culture. It's just not attractive in grown adults, let alone media 'professionals.' It is also a flawed argument--for one thing, Egyptian artifacts were always made to be ... Full Comment>>

I just can't get over all the sweet, shy, wholesome girls who have inadvertently gotten stripper English names. Candy, most notably. Full Comment>>