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Toward the Urinal, Man of Culture
Apparently Neil Armstrong has some [cachet] in China. In some weird places. While I was, uh, standing at the urinal in a hot pot restaurant’s bathroom, I notice this slogan on the wall:
往前一小步
文明一大步
Literally it means “a little step forward is a big step toward being civilized.” It beat out the other option the restaurant [...]
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Slogan Reminds of Racist Incident
I was down in Sanlitun today just behind 3.3 when I noticed a sign I had never seen before. It is right where the reported roundup and beat down of a number of black men took place about six weeks ago. Police (or paramilitary police as was reported) were supposedly trying to crack down on [...]
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Changing Jobs in China, Losing Competitiveness
Switching jobs this week has gotten me thinking about about just how short stints at one company tend to be in China. I always find it amazing the amount of job hopping people do, and how much it must cost in lost GDP. Rarely have I seen employees spend more than three years in a [...]
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Exhibiting Chinese Oddness
Yesterday I went to “The Second China (Beijing) International Cultural & Creative Industry Expo” that was supposed show different aspects of Chinese modern culture. I think that’s what it was supposed to show anyway. It was a bit of everything with booths that ranged from jewelry, to China’s space ambitions, to one area devoted to [...]
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My Beijing Commute
In Spring and Fall my bicycle gets met to work in a flash, no trouble at all. It’s only two and half miles, a straight shoot through the bustling Chinese morning craziness. But in the brutal Summer and blistering Winters, the subway is the only mode for me, anything else would be laziness.
Sure there are [...]
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When Secretaries Attack
Don’t get me wrong, I would never publicly complain about colleagues and certainly never bosses. However, there is one particularly Chinese experience with someone at my office that I think is fairly telling about the culture here. It’s actually 2 experiences, but they happened 27 minutes apart, so I’ll combine them. (editor’s note: this did [...]
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