The First Issue of Terracotta Typewriter Published
Take a look at the inaugural issue of Terracotta Typewriter – not particularly because it includes an essay of mine, but because it is an English language literary journal with Chinese characteristics....
View ArticleChina Travel Book Review: Tales of Old Peking
Explore the mysteries and treasures of prerevolutionary Beijing with Derek Sandhaus's colorful Tales of Old Peking. He delivers an informative and entertaining historical collage that includes riveting...
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Vote for 2009's Top 10 China Stories
Every year newspapers traditionally draw up a list of the top 10 stories that have dominated the headlines and held sway around water coolers for the past 12 months.Please pick the 10 that really stood...
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Highlighting 7 Links on Chengdu Living
After being nominated twice, we decided to publish a collection of 7 notable internal links on Chengdu Living. Inside you’ll find the most popular, the most controversial, the most helpful and more....
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“The Very Hungry Caterpillar” in Chinese! 好饿的毛毛虫
Our translation, with mouseover pop-up English and pinyin, of Eric Carle's classic "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". more »Languagechinesetranslationbooksstudying chinesestorieslearning chinese
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The first time I used a squat toilet
I did everything I could to avoid using squat toilets, including running all the way from a restaurant back to my apartment when my stomach had an argument with one of Wuhan’s streetside offerings, and...
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Where Nothing Is Ever Quite What It Seems. The High End Rent-A-Laowai Edition.
An interesting re-telling of a story by Dan at China Law Blog that acts as a good reminder that things aren't always quite what we think they are in China. more »Generalhumourstories
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Awesome Mops of China
Not so much a story as one amongst a whole bunch of stories. About mops. Chinese mops. And there are hundreds of them, apparently. Oddly topical, this one deals with the changes people face in modern...
View ArticleThe Blind Fortune Tellers (Lu Jun’s story)
She studied, ate and slept. But mostly she studied. more »China NewsChinastudentsstoriestrue storiesbiosbiographies
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Top 10 GoChengdoo Stories of 2012
Every year we compiled the GoChengdoo posts that have been viewed most frequently, so without further ado, here are the top 10 posts for 2013 more »China Newstop tenchengdustories
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The eight immortals (Part 1)
I didn’t grow up watching the Chinese TV show about the Eight Immortals, the one that aired weekly in the late 1980s. I learned about this group of immortals just one year ago, when I moved to China....
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My Father - Sitting the first gaokao after the Cultural Revolution
For years, I hated my father. In my eyes, he was the most irresponsible dad in the world. He wasn't earning money to support us. He didn't enjoy family gatherings, and was always the first to leave the...
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