Written by Sarah Li Cain You ought to know by now that Chinese slang is changing frequently. Yeah, we have a list we mentioned before, but there are just so many more waiting to be discovered! If you truly want to be part of Chinese culture, you need to learn slang. No WeChat conversation can… Read More
The first thing I asked when I arrived in China over 4 years ago was how to say ‘hello’ and ‘thank you’. I insisted on saying ‘谢谢’ for everything and got upset when people didn’t say it back to me when I held a door or did some other trivial deed. I tried to ask… Read More
Written by Chamcen Liu, edited by Hollie Sowden (Team!) Chinese Internet Slang is changing frequently, but it’s a great thing to know if you use Chinese websites or services such as Weibo or Wechat (and want to be cool). Quite frankly, even if you don’t use either of those, learning new slang is just fun…. Read More
Sipping a glass of tea as I type this blog post today. Personally, I have switched over to tea from coffee over a year ago and I am not looking back. I was just drinking too much coffee per day and it was giving me headaches – since living in China people have been trying… Read More
Written by Ellen Dowling The day after Christmas, 2007, my husband Don and our Chinese friend “Elizabeth” (real name Xiaofang), set out from Shanghai to take a train to the city of Suzhou, where we were to meet up with friends of Elizabeth. It should have been an easy trip, but things swiftly went awry,… Read More
It will only take [est_time] to read this post! Having personally always shied away from Chinese TV shows because I thought they all followed the same predictable patterns, I recently realized how wrong I was to assume this. It’s clear from some contemporary TV shows in China that the format is often based on successful… Read More