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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: Where I can find blogs of Chinese living abroad ?
I find tons of blogs of expats in China, which is fine, but after reading so much of it, it gets old. Now, I'm very interested in the reverses perspective : blogs of Chinese leaving abroad. Somehow, I've some difficulties to find that. I sourced one place, diaspora.chinasmack.com, which a few interesting stories (the one with the guy in NZ especially). My wife blogged her experience in NZ as well. But that's about it.
Can you advise blogs/travel logs of Chinese living or traveling abroad ?
It's because you are searching in English.
Chinese living abroad would write in Chinese.
DrMonkey:
Nope, searched in Chinese too, failed. Maybe you can suggest some to me :) ?
Ask yourself: a blog about what?
What you think is such a blog intended for: relating a meaningful experience where one shared with people fom a different place and learned to see the world with a different perspective.
What Chinese think is such a blog intended for: picture of me in front of foreign shop, picture of me in front of foreign random people, picture of me in front of foreign shopping bag, picture of me with foreign receipt, picture with me with random foreign background. LOOK AT ME IM IN FOREIGNISTAN SO SO MUCH FACE!
Freelance blogging doesn't exist in China, just like freelance anything else. I'm sure you can't reserve a domain name if you're not a registered company. So, don't bother using search engines, just look inside major platforms like Tencent or 163. You might find a pearl in a mountain of boring garbage.
xinyuren:
Unfortunately, this is such a true comment for most Chinese traveling or living abroad. They really don't get the concept of cultural exchange. That said, I have come across a couple of blogs on the QQ pages of Chinese students studying abroad. The best they could do was write about our superficial differences, (they can drink from the tap, the women shave their legs...) without even wondering about the deep underlying ideas behind our culture. Not very surprising, but perhaps that is unreasonable to expect from an education system that is starving of intellectuals.
DrMonkey:
I give the benefit of the doubt. My wife blogged about the conversations she had, commented on the things that surprised her, etc. Even if few people would have this attitude, I'm eager to read them, because having their own perspective would be such an interesting experience. Call this positive discrimination. But yes, that might explain why it is so hard to find.
You can't find many of them because all of them use wechat or QQ. RiriRiri is right, you will find them posing with victory signs with backdrops of certain tourist attractions that indicate they are in whichever country. Their captions are usually "oh it's so wonderful to be here!" I have not come across any Chinese blogs on the internet, English or. Chinese. If you have wechat, do a search on nearby people, then take a look at their content. It's mostly selfies and/or the branded handbag, phone or just after putting on make up. Duh!