Frankly, given that he likely knew the questions in advance, I kind of expected his Chinese to be better — from what I had heard. But impressive nonetheless. At least he’s doing something more useful than pimpin’ electronic dictionaries.
I have a feeling this is not the last we’ve seen of Kevin Rudd on […]

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This story is thoroughly disgusting, so be warned.
On youku’s front page today is a video entitled: “温州大学保安当众将狗打死” or “Wenzhou University Security [guard] beats a dog to death in front of everybody.”
And though I wish it wasn’t the case, the video shows exactly that. Click here to see the video, though as I said, it’s […]

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I’m not going to say too much about this one. Only that I hate the Chinese finger-wag gesture, and I’m not too fond of foreign Chinese language students who adopt it when trying to add a little Chinese cultural flair to their fluency.
One of the reasons that I’m not fond of the finger wag, is […]

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I’m not much for the rigid military flag raising ceremonies that occur everywhere in China on a daily basis. But when I came across this little homemade video just now that someone made on National Day at Beijing’s Tian’anmen Square, I thought to myself: “Self, here’s a flag raising that means something.”
Among the clutter and […]

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