is watching porn offensive because of moral reasons, or are they making sure no commerce is lost from men opting to whack off to a free website rather than spend money in a KTV? I begin to wonder… CCP is obsessed with controlling all forms of scarcity, consumption and cashflow in China. Full Comment>>

a paraphrase from Goebbels if i'm not mistaken. Full Comment>>

and i love how the averages were calculated: 5500 for bachelors, 6xxx for masters, and 8xxx for PhDs. that averages out to… 5510 for all students! either there are lots of bachelors, or very few masters & PhDs. Full Comment>>

what's more interesting, is why student's salary expectations are so skewed with reality year after year. too many self-aggrandizing dream speeches, and high praise from family, perhaps? i guess students' expectations are as realistic as their skills. the startup hopefuls are really just hoping to nestle themselves ... Full Comment>>

swearing is an acknowledgement of interacting with responsive individuals. it's something i've refrained from doing long ago. they don't deserve it. if you get angry at a storm for disturbing your balance, you just look like a crazy man shouting in the wind. Full Comment>>

there must be more to this story. universities here have almost 100% graduation rate because they take bribes and handhold students until they meet the requirements. failing to meet university standards is BS. students normally get to do-over, revise, tweak and cheat to their hearts' content. Full Comment>>

Western consumers have no say in how these cheap trinkets get manufactured, so you are establishing a heck of a lot of responsibility without good cause. It's like saying: "You bought the girl a drink, now pay for health expenses, and all the destructive and inefficient habits of her extended family!" Full Comment>>

Eastern Face vs. Western Dignity. Dignity is for everyone, and keeps relations smooth. Face is only for the "welly impotent possum", and keeps the slaves jumping at their whim, as the bullies are justified to take offense at any time. Receiving gratification is not a basic human right, but try telling that ... Full Comment>>

As much as I appreciate female beauty and deplore rigid bans, I think this type of limitation might be useful in China. The way women are used to sexualize products here can go too far sometimes. It may also send a message to the fashion industry and the women who follow it blindly: The amount of exposed skin can be ... Full Comment>>

i grew up English/Dutch bilingual. I always got shivers of disgust when Dutch people used English buzzwords in a sentence to appear hip or knowledgeable. It often came across like they just learned the word and just barely knew how to pronounce and use it. It wasn't about language purity; just my aversion to ... Full Comment>>

The princelings running this country will go to shameless extremes to make sure the young university girls they pick up in the weekends are as skinny as can be. Full Comment>>

Cutting edge news! Full Comment>>

Obnoxious. An article on an expat site telling its readers (with no small amount of generalization) why they come to China. In fact, I just read the titles and skipped the rest: If you've read one of these provocation pieces, you've read them all. It's late, and I'm not a glutton for punishment. Full Comment>>

https://thenanfang.com/us-food-stall-operator-criticized-stealing-chinese-culture/ I think they left out a few of the details of why it went viral... Like the part where they say DAMN FOREIGNERS STOLE CHINESE CULTURE!!! But it's ok; I would be ashamed of the xenophobic stupidity from my countrymen too, if I were ... Full Comment>>

sounds like a joke comment, but in superficial Chinese culture, it can actually make a difference. Instant machine-washable respectability. Full Comment>>

A decent article. I experienced the same in the language school industry. It's also noteworthy that FTs are put in classes with young kids to teach simple words, while adults get atrocious teaching from Chinese teachers. Because they're willing to 'sacrifice' more for their young kids' education than for their own. ... Full Comment>>

In my country, I'd keep all my money in my account, and only a pittance of small change in my wallet, for fear of pickpockets. Here, I'm inclined to trust my pocket more than my bank account. Full Comment>>

Nope. No sympathy for (likely premeditated) murder and cover-up. I'm tired of Chinese gaming the sympathy card, and this one is a fairly deliberate play on emotion. It's not our place to make excuses for bad behaviour, and citing 'cultural differences' has been done to death. Literally. Full Comment>>

By all means, enlighten me. Can you explain why being abused excuses murder? Anywhere else seems to be better than her hometown, but she refused to be a lone female waidiren, and preferred to kill her man and play victim. Shenanigans. Am I the only one who doesn't see this is no poor innocent victim? Full Comment>>

in the old times, foreign ethnicities were defined by the food they ate. laowai are still considered beef eaters, muslims are "shuns pork people", jews are "extract sinew people". not much has changed, only now Chinese judge non-conformers by the non-water beverages they drink. it's really their ... Full Comment>>

I'm an old foreigner. I think I was born dark-skinned and Thai, but when I turned 30, I gained light skin and a British passport. That's how foreignland works. Full Comment>>

Can't judge when I know so little about the situation. But murder seems an excessive countermeasure to household abouse. She hadn't considered running away? Full Comment>>

This is why China truly hates the west. Modern concepts that unbalance the already precarious harmony of a society that is struggling to catch up. Old values become totally indefensible, when there are countries out there that criminalize traditional sexism. I can sympathize from a larger point of view, but the ... Full Comment>>

none of these surprise me. you find a shop for each of those industries on every street in China, except glasses. it's part of modern Chinese culture to spend a lot on these products. Wedding photos are for the ubiquitous face and marriage reasons. Glasses are due to the myopia epidemic of schoolkids forced to stare ... Full Comment>>

Does China still believe they can spread bad culture and values effortlessly, merely by being a big country? I quote: "Educators know that water will seek its own level and it is only a matter of time before China, as the second largest world economy, becomes number one." - I guess Hollywood and Bollywood ... Full Comment>>