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Dear Rosanne: My wife won't let me see my girlfriend
Originally published in The China Post (but not online). Read more of Rosanne’s witty and hilarious columns for the culturally discombobulated on…
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Jonathan Chandler's Lowdown on The Middle Kingdom
DeeDee – a 21st Century Chinese Girl
This is part of an exclusive, copyrighted series by British novelist Jonathan Chandler, “Low(down) on the (Shang)Hai.” For permission to publish elsewhere,…
Comedy
Dear Rosanne: My Taiwanese BF called me 'big nose'
Originally published in The China Post (but not online). Read more of Rosanne’s witty and hilarious columns for the culturally discombobulated on…
Travel
Unpaving Paradise: Digging Up Taiwan's Ancient Heritage
Cited on megalithic.co.uk Most of us inhabit this earth as far removed in our daily lives as possible from the roots of…
Opinion
Lowdown on Shanghai: Hot town, Summer’s in the city!
The furnace season is here, along with the blessed Plum Rains, which this year have killed hundreds with unprecedented flooding and heavenly…
Travel
Dear Rosanne: My foreign neighbor lady doesn't like foreign things
Originally published in The China Post (but not published anywhere else online). Read more of Rosanne’s witty and hilarious columns for the…
Jonathan Chandler's Lowdown on The Middle Kingdom
Saturday night in small town, provincial China
A couple of weekends ago, just after the Chinese New Year known here as The Spring Festival (which seems both erroneous and…
Travel
For Cape No. 7 actor, 'taike' means not forgetting history
Pongfong spraypaints a wall at Radio Banciao, leaving his mark. Photo: TdG Pongfong Wu (吳朋奉) is a complex character to describe. Professionally,…
Opinion
The Ox Year: From Under the Bund
The New Year of the Ox was heralded in Shanghai by silent shuttered shops and six days and nights of fireworks, often…
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Doing Business in China
China Business Network Founder Christine Lu interviews Corbett Wall,China Director, JDD Corbett Wall has spent more than 20 years doing business in…
Opinion
Low on the Hai: Shanghai the lucky city
Low on the Hai: Shanghai the lucky city – you’d better believe it… One of the massive construction projects for the Shanghai…
Opinion
The Meltdown of English Teaching in Taiwan
It’s not just the economy; Taiwanese have money. They are among the best savers in the world, and have invested, thrown money…