Answers of the Day
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Sep 25,2014
Sun Yat Sen was inspiring, he had a dream, he worked to make it happen. His work have been usurped after his death by scumbags. Yeah, like that bald military genius...
Zhou En Lai, who was a torch of rationality in a world of madness.
Xu Zhiyong, for having balls of tungsten and trying to create a civil society while you guys are being snarky and not...
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Sep 23,2014
I had teeth pulled, root canal treatments and implants made in different hospitals, one of them was this "No 1 People's Hospital" and the others were private. I felt the guys did a better job at the People's hospital than the private clinic for 10% of the price, but you might want to get ready for some old school treatment style.
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Sep 22,2014
What's the point of being ahead of the rat race if you're not waving a banner to let those behind know they're losing?
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Sep 18,2014
I wonder. If the pets hit it off, get married and leave home, would the former owners have them for dinner?
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Sep 15,2014
It's not bad music, it's just different (oh, I think it's crap but that is my opinion) Music styles are linked to culture. So just because we don't like it, doesn't mean the music does not have its place.
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Sep 15,2014
I generally find that I have to work hard for the large sum of money that I get paid, yes.
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507 . Are Chinese workers useless because of low pay or do they receive low pay because they are useless?Sep 12,2014
It's a low cost economy, designed to take best advantage of Western greed.
China supplies the low cost workers, the western consumers get low cost products and the companies controlling it make a lot of money.
It's an amazing success story, and wages are on their way up. So the plan to free millions of people from grinding poverty is working...
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Sep 10,2014
I have tattoos on my arms (from my service days) and on my neck (some crazy thing I did years ago). I don't problems so long as I don't show it in class. Having tattoos in China means you are someone from the underworld or so it seems but on a foreigner they mean different things. What Sorrel said is true, foreigners ok, locals no no.
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Sep 04,2014
If you mean should the grandparents having sole responsibility, there are serious consequences to that method (as already has been said by the above posters). Chinese society is dealing with these consequences: children estranged from their parents, lenient grandparents spoiling the children, and the scarred psyche from not receiving parents love... A touching movie about...
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510 . Favourite Chinese shop?Sep 02,2014
I like the little shop at the corner of my block.
It's tiny, but they sell beer at 4 RMB a bottle and put a table out on the street for me. In the morning I go in to buy my ciggies and orange juice and hand the guy all my small change and he sorts it out.
He even lets me use his tiny toilet at the back.
It's a great place to sit...
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Sep 02,2014
As much as I get pissed about things in China, I'd think it's a bad thing if my wife was like that. What then when we live in my home country, should I be turned into a selfhating tard ?
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Aug 29,2014
At the wedding they will be expecting a red envelope with money inside. I would recommend giving between 300-500RMB depending on how close you are to the couple.
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Aug 28,2014
If you hold Residence permit, I suggest you open Gold account with Visa/Mc ATM card at China Merchants Bank. You can open Gold account with 1000 Rmb deposit.
Once, you'll receive your salary to the account, you can buy any currency (limit US$ 50 000/year) with 'spot exchange rate' applied (rate without banking fees) .
If you use ATM card outside of...
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514 . What is guanxi?Aug 26,2014
Guanxi is a system of connections around which Chinese social and professional relations revolve, basically having the right connections (shaking the right hand, drinking with the right person, ...) will make your life easier.
For e.g. being the drinking buddy of the chief of the local police can save you from jailtime if you happen to kill someone.
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Aug 22,2014
Lu Xun wrote something like The problem with our relationship with foreigners is that we've never seen them as equals. We've always either looked down on them as animals, or looked up to them as Emperors.
You can count on Lu Xun to sketch the modern Chinese character accurately in a few words (and yes, he died in 1936, but what he said stays completely relevant in 2014).
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Aug 20,2014
That's a horrid situation to be in.
If it were me I would say it's a local trait from your home country. Maybe also make up a story about white hair being considered lucky and that you consider yourself blessed to have it.
It sounds as if you work in a public school with lots of party members.
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Aug 18,2014
(sigh)
Why do i get the idea from all the similar 'anonymous' posts on illegal work recently that someone is trying to catch posters out?
My answer:
you take on illegal work at your own risk.
You have to evaluate the risk for yourself: you might be caught by the PSB, but then again you might not.
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Aug 15,2014
I have previously uttered
Chinese find it easy to believe but difficult to trust, whereas I find it difficult to believe but easy to trust. ("I" could be other westerners than me I guess)
Example. Mobile phones. People believe they are harmful (radiation blah blah blah) but do not trust...
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Aug 13,2014
Tangsuan Radio. They're funny and in Chinese (mostly with Beijing local accent), just like talk show and play Beijing indie band music sometime...
http://itunes.apple.com/cn/podcast/tang-suan-guang-bo-shen-zhou/...
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520 . Are you happy in China?Aug 12,2014
I convince myself that I am happy.... .. me too, just 3 years ...I have a fantastic family here in China, not just my wife, but a whole lot of people that are just plain good to me.
I am not happy about my Chinese language progress ... I thought 2 years, then 5 and now have resigned myself to 20 and then croaking/leaving.
I am for sure happy living in the tropics as opposed...
