China never misses an opportunity to dry-fuck it’s nationals and expats alike, and nowhere is this proverbial rape more evident than in the hospitals scattered over the face of this toxic wasteland. With over 1.3bn potential customers suffering the effects…

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“Wǒ zhēn de hěn tǎoyàn zhōngguó” I really hate China. And boy do I ever. And it’s increasing daily. I wake up from my Shuìjiào (sleep), hungover again, and my dog looks like he needs to have a walk. I…

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(This is an earlier post buried deep within my blog somewhere.) 1) Everyone will assume you don’€™t speak Mandarin. I’€™d like to try and be fair about this, as the honest truth is most of us here do not speak…

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So English teacher’s salaries have been frozen in place for the last eight years or whatever. “No pay rise laowai, and guess what? More hours. Now do you want your fucking visa or not?” Of course, the loser laowai English…

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In Wuhan, you find most beggars hanging around the Information Market 1   and the train stations, and I didn’t mind. It’s not that I enjoyed their company, it’s just that after having met beggars in other countries, the Wuhanese…

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The beginning… Anyone in the education business anywhere on the planet, whether running a business, providing government education programs, teaching, or studying knows who Pearson is, and China is no different. Effectively barred from the publishing business in China due…

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Fletcher’s post a couple weeks ago, “China and why we stay” got me thinking. I’m not sure about “we”, but I feel I should have some idea of why I am staying. So, I started thinking, “just what the hell…

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(After much discussion, negotiation, and back and forth, eventually involving both our teams of lawyers,  I’ve been encouraged to actually put my blog url here:  http://mychinakanfa.blogspot.com/…….for that I’m eternally grateful to Kalan Star!   Pls take a look.  Yes, I…

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(I just put this on my blog a few weeks ago.  Feel free to disagree with my thoughts.)   China is addictive.   This is why some of us stay.   We are all the same.  I’m talking about the long…

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(This is something I’ve had lying around for a month and finally got around to publishing a version of on my personal blog only a few days ago, after seeing similar articles pop up..enjoy. )   Nothing is more tragic…

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