Actually characters simplification process started much earlier and came to it's top at the end of the 19th, beginning of the 20th century (also connected with 'dropping' of classical Chinese). The latest reforms (1956 and 1964 - after sorting the mess with 1977 reform in 1986) touche 2,000 characters (educated ... Full Comment>>

I can say that after reading the article and the comments one would have to agree that China is apparently not able to attract foreign professionals. On the other hand for some strange reason the country is apparently attractive for a lot of foreign wannabees... Full Comment>>

绿茶婊子 (lv4 cha2 biao3 zi) or 绿茶婊 (lv4 cha2 biao3). But I am not sure it's so popular as the article indicates. On top of that I doubt any man would have a problem with such a behaviour. It's probably not a coincidence this article is written by the girl ... Full Comment>>

No, it's not OK. But it's also not a reason to pee on somebody's car ... Full Comment>>

Yes. Taxi drivers sometimes do not take people due to: 1) Being on the way to pick up customer using phone app to book them 2) Having a rest 3) They do not want to go to the place you aim to and in case of foreigners: 4) Expecting having a difficulty to deal with the person 5) Not liking foreigners (some of them) ... Full Comment>>

The taxi driver may have a lot of reasons not to take a customer (irrespective of nationality). Some of these reasons are right and some are wrong, but there is no reason for argument with taxi driver just because he does not want to take you. It happened to me many times that the taxi driver did not want to take me ... Full Comment>>

Oh dongbeiren, mattharling point is not about lack of biz opportunities. If you read his/her comment properly so it's about personal safety. Of course, anything can happen but I really do not believe that any boxers riot would be possible ... And certainly there are no indications that it could develop into this ... Full Comment>>

So now I finally understand based on what you selected your nickname. I must say rarely you find a person with such a good ability of self-analysis who on top of that is not ashamed to let the world know ... Thumb up! Full Comment>>

Farewell :) I find so very interesting when 'economical experts' are bringing figures, which they probably do not fully understand, to support the standpoints not really related to those figures they used for illustration. But one thing I totally agree with you - a lot of people contributing to this site would do ... Full Comment>>

Quite nice to see that points of view of certain American contributors to this site about country sovereignty issue are seen a bit ridiculous even by US government ... In case the countries start to cooperate in preventing crimes or at least assist each other to investigate the criminals whereabouts so this shall ... Full Comment>>

The only advantage is that it's a bit less than currently Greece and Hungary offers - in both these countries it's 250,000 EUR and the investor will get EU and Schengen state passport. But if you have free cash in the amount of about 2,000,000 CNY so you probably do not need that. If you are super rich so more or ... Full Comment>>

I find your emotional outcries quite typical for your 'culture level' ... Full Comment>>

And I like the Singaporean system. Its efficiency resulting in hard working and motivated people who are not afraid to be responsible for own lives. It certainly is not the Western 'democracy'. But it works very well - in comparison the current situation in majority of Western countries. Singapore was the first ... Full Comment>>

The system has nothing to do with any country sovereignty and/or spying on anybody as some people here assume. The system should work reciprocally - foreign countries ask China to investigate on the frauds which happened in their country and which have some presumed (or real) relation to China (for instance money ... Full Comment>>

Well, this is an expat site, right? I find it quite natural that this site will have a lot of articles relating to foreigners. I do not have a feeling that public media would emphasize foreigners too much. And I am pretty sure that average Chinese does not care about foreigners basically at all (except of disliking ... Full Comment>>

OK - allow me to use my own language and paraphrase one popular saying: 'Kdyby hloupost nadnasela tak by RiriRiri po Cine poletoval jako holubicka'. As I do not assume you would understand my language (without any offense as my country is too small for majority of the people to learn our language) so let me just ... Full Comment>>

I do not rule out that some of the contributors here are quite intelligent. Not sure though it's all the contributors case ... Never mind - as Chinese say 慢慢来 - person can probably hardly affect own intelligence but certainly can contribute to improving own knowledge and manners. By the way can I ask you why does ... Full Comment>>

From my perspective there is nothing wrong with you not liking the law - as per my opinion this discussion has nothing to do with the fact if we do or do not like it. We are usually not citizens of this country and therefore cannot in any way participate on law creation. Either we can accept it and then apply for ... Full Comment>>

Oh, highly probably I do not have a soul as I am not Christian. What concerns of Universities to renew or not renew the contracts so I see no problem. That was not a point I wanted to raise. I am coming from country where the history taught us that almost any country goes just for its own benefit - and majority of ... Full Comment>>

Oh man, I do not demand from you anything :). Honestly I do not care as long as somebody's behavior is not illegal or does not effect me directly. I just said that the put forward requirements do not sound so illogical, but I admit that for some people the requirements may be too high ... And then for the argument: ... Full Comment>>

To GeoHistTeacher, OK. You married Chinese person - does that make you Chinese? I guess not. If you want to change this country so give up your current citizenship and apply for Chinese one. Then you may try your luck. But most probably you do not want to do that - nothing wrong with that. And considering that it ... Full Comment>>

I am reading with amusement the 'qualified'comments of people who are making their living in China and whose majority not so long ago strongly supported banning of Confucius Institute in the West. Full Comment>>

That really sounds like a good reason why natural and technical sciences have no chance ... Full Comment>>

All forms of terrorism should be rooted out as there is nothing more cowardly than a guy (a group of) killing innocent people in the name of his/her/their the only correct idea (or culture ...). If any person starts to support/promote his/her idea by any terrorist act so this itself should be already a good reason ... Full Comment>>

Dear RiriRiri, Let me point out that your statements contradict. On one hand you claim that majority (or at least big portion) of Chinese are nationalists and on the other hand you are convinced they would be happy to forget their nationality. I guess it's either or ... Coming back to you assumption that in case US ... Full Comment>>