http://myredchina.com An American Blogs About China Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:41:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You might have heard of the news story about the overseas student who stabbed his Mom at Shanghai's Pudong Airport and how only a Foreigner/LaoWai came to her rescue. When I lived in China I would often slip on that marble and polished concrete they have everywhere when it was wet ... http://myredchina.com/2011/%e6%80%95%e4%ba%8b-pashi-in-china-fear-of-getting-involved/ Read any Yahoo News article about China and you'll see the same group of commenters spouting the party line. Don't let this fool you into thinking that these are regular Chinese Netizens. They aren't. They are what Chinese Netizens refer to as The 50 Cent Party or WuMaoDang (五毛党). They ... http://myredchina.com/2011/chinese-commentors-on-news-articles-wumao-%e4%ba%94%e6%af%9b%e5%85%9a/ Similar to the Shanghai Then and Now pictures, here is a photo comparison of Shenzhen. Above, Shenzhen circa 1970. And Below, Shenzhen today (2010). http://myredchina.com/2011/shenzhen-30-years-ago-today/ It’s almost impossible to mention China in a conversation now without hearing about them owning a large portion of our debt.  Based on my own unscientific and anecdotal perception (I asked a bunch of people), most would answer that China owns “most” or “close to half” of our debt, and ... http://myredchina.com/2011/the-truth-about/ 20 years. Wow. http://myredchina.com/2011/shanghai-1990-vs-2010/ I once accidentally stumbled into a gay bar at a hotel in Shenzhen. When I walked in, they mistakenly thought that I must be the guest of honor. China is developing fast. I have a lot of faith that China, while possibly being in the 1950's, culturally, now--- will zoom ... http://myredchina.com/2011/lesbian-bar-in-shenzhen/ [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="374" caption="Baby, I'll count the stars and because you are not so smart, you count the moon"][/caption] http://myredchina.com/2011/cute-chinese-comic-baby-ill-count-the-stars/ Chinese Characters look like gibberish to most people who aren't chinese, and in a lot of ways it takes an amazing amount of memorization. I can identify many characters but can still only write maybe 25. But some of it makes sense and is actually easier than writing an entire word ... http://myredchina.com/2010/an-introduction-to-chinese-characters/ 7-11 delivers. You know when you’re hanging out with some friends and suddenly you realize that you need more beer, snacks, or cigarettes or some idiot girl is like “You know what would be really good right now? Ice cream!” and then all the other girls are like “yeah!”. Well ... http://myredchina.com/2010/some-good-things-about-china/ 1. People in China don't call it China. They call it ZhongGuo or ZhongGhua. Zhong means middle. See the character on the left how its a line going through the middle of a box? That's Zhong. Now Guo is a little more tricky since two characters mean Guo. The gif ... http://myredchina.com/2010/more-things-about-china/