Sep
2005

Reliable Web Hosting in China

Anyone who lives in China and maintains a website knows that it can be difficult. Websites are frequently blocked and unblocked for no discernible reason. Maintaining your website from China may become extremely difficult (if not impossible) if it is blocked in China. With this in mind, choosing a hosting service for your website can be tricky.

This article assumes you are looking for professional hosting which offers ample online disk space, reasonable bandwidth limits, MySQL databases, e-mail accounts, etc. …

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Sep
2005

Chinese Hooters Psychology

Shanghai’s Hooters restaurant is very old news by now. “A symbol of a new China,” blah blah blah. The Western media ate it up.

Shanghaiist recently did an interview of a Shanghai Hooters girl named “Quasar” and got to ask some of the more important questions:

How does the salary for a waitress at Hooters [Shanghai] compare to waitresses at other [Shanghai] restaurants?
Do you know what the word “hooters” means? [Note: the Chinese translation of the restaurant chain’s name

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Sep
2005

Chengyu for Superpowers

A reader of mine is working on her thesis, and she needs help. She’s looking for chengyu or other Chinese quotes to add some flavor. She needs your help ASAP! Leave your suggestions in the comments.

The thesis is basically about where China stands in relation to superpower status. So the first half of the thesis involves discovering what exactly a superpower is, and how the concept of superpower changes in relation to contemporary world order. And the second part …

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Sep
2005

立体悲剧

我知道中国人很欣赏艺术，但不知道立体派在中国是否很有名。不管怎么样，谁都可以欣赏全明远的动画片：Cubic Tragedy。（动画的链接在那一页的下半部）

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3 Comments | Posted in 中文

Sep
2005

Greg's Departure

For the first time in two years, Greg is no longer a teacher at ZUCC in Hangzhou. His plane left Shanghai today at 12:45pm.

Greg plans to come back to China. In the meantime, he will be missed.

P.S. Greg may not be living in China anymore, but he still has lots to say about his experiences here. So don’t forget to check Sinobling from time to time.…

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Sep
2005

My Textbook on Dialects

As I understand it, the universtity, in conjunction with the Party, assigns approved textbooks to all courses. Students must buy these books. Then, when it comes to actually teaching the course, the professors choose how much those official textbook choices are used and how much other materials the professors personally select are used. The book I was so busy studying for a while, Modern Chinese (现代汉语, 上海教育出版社), is one of the ones chosen by the Party. That can …

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Sep
2005

Mafia Mania

When writing about Supergirl I mentioned that some of my girlfriend’s friends came over to my place recently for a party. It wasn’t much of a party, really… more just friends getting together to snack, chat, play cards, and play mah jongg. Very Chinese-style recreation. (This was mostly the same group as the one I played Eat Poop You Cat with.)

I really don’t like the card game that they always play, so I just kind of hung out and …

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