Archives for Moving To China

How China Will Change You

I remember after my uncle came back from Vietnam he was never quite the same.
“That place changes you, man” he said to me, “Big time”.
When he came back to the US, where things were supposed to be better, sometimes they weren’t.
Sometimes they were just different. He had nightmares. He took to drinking heavily.
That he went [...]

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What’s It Like Living & Working In Shenzhen?

A reader recently sent me an email:
Hey Andy-
I’m a fan of Misanthropy Today and was curious what it’s like living and working in China. Is it a lot different?  I’ve been considering working abroad for awhile.
Take Care!
Brian
Hey Brian-
Well i’ve already written a little about the subject but if you want just a 50 feet up [...]

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Calling The US From China

I found this cool service called Rebtel that is based in Sweden and allows you to call the US for a few cents a minute without dialing some goddamned calling card number.
Prior to this, for 100 Yuan ($14.50) I could call the US on my cell for maybe 15 minutes. Seeing that 100 Yuan would [...]

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Chapbook For Your Trip To China

I was thinking today that keeping this China blog is sort of not as fun as I thought it would be because while i’m trying to write about China and give some pointers or have a few laughs its really very meta since i’m like drowning in Chinaness 24 hours a day.
It’s very stressful to [...]

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Moving To Shenzhen China

Ni Hao!
As you might have guessed from the title of this post i’m moving to Shenzhen, China for work.
Shenzhen (prounounced Shen-Jen) is in the Guangdong province, which means not much to me except another instance of the word “dong” in a Chinese word. For any foreign readers, in the US ‘dong’ means a peenor. [...]

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