Answers of the Day
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Jan 27,2015
Hear me out on this before calling me crazy - First of all, I am not praising the Chinese healthcare system. It is well-known that most doctors are unqualified (I work for a medical school and my boss estimates that 90% of doctors in the mainland are unqualified). Doctors regularly engage in overtreatment while running unnecessary tests and prescribing useless medicine. Antibiotics are grossly...
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402 . Beijing ordered universities to fortify ideological control by Studying and propagating MarxismJan 26,2015
Do you mind providing a link, or a source for this ?
Honestly, I think it would be self-defeating to propagate Marx's ideas in China, at least for the powers-to-be. It would be bad for the harmony of China. That's why I'm asking you to provide some serious source, that sounds just so irrational to me, unless it's a completely warped rewriting of Marx. I would much less surprised to see...
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Jan 21,2015
People always ask me when I will leave China. I have fallen into a love/hate relationship with China. I love the fact that it is ever changing and I am curious to be part of that change. Yet, i hate so many of the things that conflict with my western mentality. So, I aswer to the question of when I plan to leave is not available right now. I have been here two years. I have yet to grow as...
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Jan 20,2015
That's a tad more complex than "they just have to do X and Y". Short version : China is stuck in its smog for a decade at least, if they start to put massive resource and will into it right now. That would be more like 20 to 30 years, if something is done. It will be a massive expense, solely for the welfare of Chinese people.
1) Shutting coal plants, replace by...
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Jan 19,2015
Dont worry about it. It might be a little bit more inconvenient depending on where you are but this isnt the apocalypse. You will not starve.
The local corner store might be closed but larger supermarkets should stay open and most restaurants will as well. All of the families are finally together so most of them go out to eat and celebrate.
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Jan 15,2015
Did you get a raise to 6 Mao for posting inane questions & digging up zombie posts the last two days to copy/paste the same comments about SAFEA?
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Jan 09,2015
The tiers thing is a very poor criteria to judge a city. An example : Hefei and Suzhou are both 2nd tiers, officially. I lived in both cities : the difference is huge. Suzhou is far more cosmopolite, have way urban management, green spaces and escapes, public transportation, bike lanes, choice of restaurants & bars.
If you move from Shanghai to Hefei, it feels you go...
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408 . Xinjiang travel adviceJan 07,2015
Where's the wedding going to be? Xinjiang is a very big place and travelling around it isn't simple, mainly due to distances.
Urumqi to Kashgar by train takes about 24 hrs, less than 2 by plane.
We're going there during Spring Festival and tossing up whether to fly or drive. At least I am....my wife is adamant we should fly. We'll probably fly.
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Jan 04,2015
Learning to pass any exam should be worth it.
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410 . ...Dec 31,2014
I think some things got worse however. For me, pollution, had to go indoor to run. Internet is more crippled. I see Xi's face floating in a blue sky before the movie start in the cinema, it wasn't like that, and there are things congruent to that happening in the same time. The country is closing itself little by little.
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Dec 27,2014
There is an OK bike shop in Canton place. Halfway between Leide and Tancun metro station.
It sells "Cronus" cycles. Expensive, but they look ok. Nice frames and with Shimano kit on. I think they start at about 3000RMB and go up to the price of a car. I think this is the site:
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Dec 26,2014
Its definitely worth it, I mean where else can you travel in China winter? I went last year some advice:
1) Stay near the center of the old city (russian youth hostel is good)
2) Buy your tix for the ice festival ASAP when you get there
3) Go buy new winter clothes in the underground market beneath the main plaza near the Songhua its really cheap and heavy... -
Dec 17,2014
I miss you, too!
Come back! We love you!
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Dec 12,2014
you all crazy. we all know that KTV's causes cancer in the different western bodies.... it's like cold water to Chinese bodies.
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Dec 12,2014
I'm hosting Christmas this year and I'm having all my friends round throughout the day, I'm cooking a full roast and I've invited some of my old grandpa friends from the hutong! Should be good!
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416 . Bar, Club or KTV?Dec 04,2014
Bar => I love them, because it's easy to have long conversations about anything, without having to yell
KTV => I used to go when I was living in Vietnam. It was fun with the right people : people who know the same songs as you and can sing along with you.
Club => I never had fun there, I don't like dancing, it's to noisy, no real ways to communicate. If forced into one,...
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Dec 04,2014
Ouch, but at least you won't ruin your life with someone wrong for you, for awful reasons. Live long and prosper.
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Dec 03,2014
I met my GF on the internet on a Chinese dating site, some 4 years ago. After chatting online for 6 months, I went to China to meet her. We traveled together for a while, then I returned home. Over the past years we have been meeting every few months, either traveling somewhere, or visiting each other. She wants to leave China some day, but have a career. I...
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Dec 01,2014
I'm guessing admin is hot. Just got a sexy way of writing. Some supermodel hunched over her keyboard I reckon
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Nov 29,2014
You can take a Chinese out of China,but you can`t take away my yearning to be amonst the chaos and madness of their country, the place I now feel is my home
Anywhere else would be downright boring.
