Dave’s Wagon

Sometimes it takes a “Chinese vs laowai (foreigner) beer competition” invite wedged under your door while you sleep to realize just how far you are from the dry campus of your home country.

Hat tip Riding Sun/Fark/Reuters on this one:
Chinese students spend summer holidays trading faces

Like a growing number of students in China, Pan Ou will spend her university vacation going under the knife in a plastic surgery procedure she hopes will boost her chances of getting a good job after graduation.
“I want to be more beautiful, to […]

Aye, with a grateful flourish I do tip my Commandant Blogger’s hat to the savvy EastSouthWestNorth for spotting this impressive fleet of China photos off the port bow. Indeed, what a colorful country it seems I be bound for!
First mate! We’ve a fair wind to our stern. Let slip the sails and hasten us on […]

More US/China headlines mirroring each other:
April 17, 2006: Group develops good behaviour guide for US tourists
August 17, 2006: China targest uncouth tourists ahead of Olympics
We have so much in common!

If everything you know about China you learned from the Integrated Chinese textbook series, then it’s probably perfectly clear to you why China has such a population problem: their families are huge! The Chapter 2 illustration from the level 1, part 1 textbook (pictured above) is captioned “My family has six people”, and that just […]