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Q: Why do some Chinese like to stare at foreigners?
may be the skin tone. chinese are jaundiced yellow color.
Skater, you're Chinese, aren't you?
So you're asking this in English, on an expat-centric website. Odd.
I agree with MMD. It's because of the handsome faces they see. Hah! Like mine. (Sure, sure.)
That depends, maybe because in small city in China people never saw a foreigner before. In Shanghai, no one cares.
And about the handsome part, just cannot agree~
we're white monkeys 4 them. that's all. Xi'an is a big city, but they are stare anyway.
Well, other than the rudeness part, it deals with a lack of morals. They are curious but where does curious stop and rudeness begin, lets say about five minutes of glaring at you. I just stare back and make funny faces, then they ask me in Chinese whats wrong with me, so then I speak Chinese and to their astonishment a foreigner can speak Chinese. Ohh, the best one is when a Chinese man was selling corn, I bought one and he asked me where I'm from, I said America, and his response, Americans eat corn too. Oh my god, put a sock in it already. i didn't want to bust his bubble with watermelon.
For the same reason they can't help but gather around a fight or argument in the street: curiosity!
They know next to nothing about us, except the stereotypes they're fed from their amazing local news. Thankfully, being an ABC I don't really have this problem! 
