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Choose several major agents in the area - they will all have the same listings.

Write your requirements out in Chinese.

Go through each point with the agent to confirm understanding.

Verbally go through which points are negotiable and be firm on minimum standards and maximum monetary amounts.

Ask for when such apartments may be viewed and be clear that if you are...

I do not understand why China cannot get a World Cup qualifying team going. Let's look at the math........................

1,300,000,000 Chinese people.

650,000,000 males (actually more than this, since there are more men in China than women because of sex selection abortion which is appalling, but that is another argument)

Men...

A summary from the wall of text: rich spoiled kid do some shit and their daddeh and mommeh rescue them.

Not really a china or china vs other country problem, this shit happens all the time. The main thing is that currently law only apply to poor people. The banks screw the world with financial crisis, despite they aren't killing people directly but due to it lots of people...

That's a great question, it's been asked in Wall Street every year, Only British and Americans need a criminal background check if its a new Z visa gig.  we got a Canadian couple last March and they asked the same thing. Maybe a better relationship with China and less violence.  I know Canada is special to Koreans, they adore all teachers from there. 

ok, so you want a language exchange.

maybe you should change the question above to reflect that.

I have had unfortunate experiences with language exchange.

The person involved usually suddenly became 'too busy'  when it was my turn to learn Chinese, or when i suggested teaching me first, suddenly had 'something else to do'

So you will excuse my...

Not exactly what a student said, but wrote.

* On the concluding slide of one of my lectures, I wrote "Beware, the results obtained through XXX should be taken with a grain of salt".

* At the exam, I asked questions where the answer is not directly, verbatim written in my course materials. The students should make their own reasoning to reach a conclusion, using what was taught...

I actually couldn't care less although I am Chinese. If I had to worry about face all the time, I'd lose my benefits as a foreigner. Benefits meaning I am allowed not to know about face, about people spitting their throats out, not washing themselves in the heat of summer, etc. Where I come from, you'd lose more face spitting and not washing up. So the concepts don't add up. I just ignore it....

If you are active in your kid's life (teaching him values and helping him think for himself) and there isn't a better alternative then I can see doing Chinese school for the first couple of years.  They will learn to be responsible by taking studying seriously (setting them up to do well academically in a western environment) and will have mastered Chinese at an early age which will be of...

@KimOnAch Well, back in the 40's, US armies freed my country, while a large part of the population was just looking, and the "elite" just gave up. They did not do that alone, it was a large concerted effort, of which USSR did the brunt of the job. However, US gave generous helps to clean-up the mess and rebuild. Unlike USSR, countries who accepted the help did not have to become a US-bis. This...