China Blocks the iTunes Store - 2008 Aug 21
(Tags: censorship, current events, iPhone)
Mini-Interview with The World - 2008 Jul 12
(Tags: current events, elsewhere, linguistics, pronunciation)
Candlelight Vigil - 2008 May 19
(Tags: current events, observations, Shanghai, the wife)
Cultural Angles on Donations - 2008 May 17
(Tags: culture, current events)
Barack Obama in Shanghai (with Evil Obama) - 2008 Apr 16
(Tags: current events, t-shirts)
Kevin Rudd’s Chinese, Analyzed - 2008 Apr 12
(Tags: Chinese study, ChinesePod, current events)
YouTube: Down for everyone or just me? - 2008 Mar 16
(Tags: censorship, current events, YouTube)
Mao: History’s Biggest Pimp? - 2008 Feb 14
(Tags: current events, funny, history)
Life without YouTube in the PRC - 2007 Oct 21
(Tags: censorship, current events, entertainment, internet, YouTube)
Flickr Blocked Hardcore - 2007 Jun 28
(Tags: censorship, current events, elsewhere, Flickr)
Culturally Awkward - 2007 Apr 18
(Tags: current events, personal)
Maybe we’ll get something better? - 2006 Dec 31
(Tags: ChinesePod, current events, Shanghai, tech)
The earthquake broke my internet - 2006 Dec 28
(Tags: ChinesePod, current events, site news, Taiwan)
HSK for Inmates - 2006 Dec 11
(Tags: current events, HSK)
Alf, Lord of the Dolphins - 2006 Dec 04
(Tags: Alf, animals, current events)
The Hug Threat - 2006 Nov 02
(Tags: Beijing, current events, Greg, other blogs)
Chinese World Cup Heavy Metal - 2006 Jul 09
(Tags: celebrities, ChinesePod, current events, elsewhere, funny)
In Your Face, Beijing - 2006 Jan 04
(Tags: Beijing, current events, Hangzhou, Micah, Shanghai)
Dubbing transsexuals - 2005 Oct 11
(Tags: current events, media, sex, TV, vocabulary)
Baidu Sued - 2005 Sep 17
(Tags: Baidu, current events)
New Ireland - 2005 Sep 08
(Tags: current events, taxis, vocabulary)
Why can’t Asia just get along? - 2005 Jul 30
(Tags: blogging, current events, elsewhere, Japan, Korea, other blogs)
Nuking America - 2005 Jul 19
(Tags: current events, elsewhere, girlfriend, other blogs, politics, Taiwan, travel)
eBay and Wordplay - 2005 May 11
(Tags: advertising, current events, language, vocabulary)
Adopte una bitácora - 2005 May 07
(Tags: Adopt a Blog, current events, e-mail, Spanish)
Death on Chinese Roads - 2005 Apr 19
(Tags: current events, observations)
AP - 2005 Mar 28
(Tags: Adopt a Blog, current events)
Human-Animal Chimeras - 2005 Jan 27
(Tags: current events)
Hangzhou Tsunami - 2005 Jan 21
(Tags: current events)
Snow Snow Snow - 2005 Jan 02
(Tags: current events)
Political Kid - 2004 Nov 06
(Tags: current events)
Have you voted? - 2004 Oct 20
(Tags: current events)
Chinese Green Cards? - 2004 Aug 20
(Tags: current events)
Heading Home (after a year and a half) - 2004 May 25
(Tags: current events)
Uncreative CNN - 2004 Feb 29
(Tags: Chinese characters, current events, elsewhere)
Soy Sauce from Human Hair - 2004 Feb 19
(Tags: current events)
Someone Listened?! - 2004 Jan 15
(Tags: current events, elsewhere, SARS)
Muzimei Correction - 2003 Nov 20
(Tags: current events, observations)
Stupid Cold - 2003 Nov 18
(Tags: current events, personal)
YARRR! - 2003 Sep 19
(Tags: current events)
University classes on this? - 2003 Aug 20
(Tags: current events)
Let the Past Speak to the Present - 2003 Jul 14
(Tags: current events)
For many complicated reasons - 2003 May 18
(Tags: current events, personal, SARS, Wilson, ZUCC)
SARS Media Correspondence - 2003 May 15
(Tags: classic, current events, Hangzhou, SARS)
Japan Invades Again - 2003 May 05
(Tags: culture, current events)
Life Under SARS - 2003 May 01
(Tags: classic, current events, Hangzhou, SARS, society)
Evil Empire - 2003 Apr 22
(Tags: current events, observations)
Another April Fools’ Day - 2003 Apr 05
(Tags: celebrities, culture, current events, Ray)
Foreigner Protest in Beijing - 2003 Mar 22
(Tags: current events, politics)
Shaq insults Chinese everywhere - 2003 Jan 18
(Tags: culture, current events, site news)
Information Terrorism - 2003 Jan 12
(Tags: censorship, current events, Google)
Race, Schmace - 2002 Dec 17
(Tags: culture, current events, Japan, racism)
Japan on China - 2002 Dec 11
(Tags: culture, current events, elsewhere, Japan)
More Polls… - 2002 Dec 05
(Tags: culture, current events, politics, polls, teaching)
Women and Children - 2002 Nov 22
(Tags: current events, law, Shanghai, society, women)
Buy Nothing Day - 2002 Nov 13
(Tags: current events, elsewhere)
Selective Search Blocking - 2002 Nov 07
(Tags: censorship, current events, Google, politics, tech)
Safer - 2002 Sep 11
(Tags: current events, USA)
Remember - 2002 Sep 11
(Tags: current events)
Googleless - 2002 Sep 10
(Tags: current events, elsewhere, Frank Yu, Google, other blogs, tech)
John has lived in China for 8 years. He is a linguist focused on SLA and Asia.