Live in China

An example of business card you may get walking down Nanjing Road, Shanghai. In Shanghai there are so many prostitutes that I got curious and I did some researches about prostitution in China. One of best source of information on the topics is Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China. According to […]

Introducing the creatures that populate my feet It must be the humidity. Or maybe the fact that I never bring flip-flops with me when I travel. It’s not my fault, my zoom takes all the space available on my bag! The point is that I got a fungus that is slowly (well, not that slowly)

We’ve received and publish this article written by Antonella Moretti, a blogger and writer. Author of the novel “Parsley & Coriander: Life in China with Italian flavour“. I’ve been living in China for six years, and in my city’s Italian community I’m considered to be a bit of a veteran. In this period of time

Last year I broke my wrist which, after more than a year, keeps aching. It’s a very annoying pain, sometimes feeble, other times stabbing. So I decided that I must solve this situation. Or at least try to solve it. I stopped to practice artistic gymnastic but it didn’t help. Conversely, things got worse. Thus

Not long after touching down in my U.S. hometown of Portland, Oregon, for the summer, I ended up in a conversation with a doctor from New York City who had recently moved to my beautiful Northwest city. I asked her how she was getting on in our unique little metropolis. She said, “Everyone is too

Plaza Bayi, Nanchang Excited that you got a job offer in China but then you find out it’s going to be some city called Zhengzhou or Yantai? Disappointed that your international job transfer is to Nanchang instead of Shanghai? Admittedly, in the 3rd tier cities of China there is a preponderance of people that some

Going to the doctor in China is a unique experience. If you don’t have a proper health insurance, it’s also pretty expensive. Today I want to share with you the story of my last visit to a Chinese public hospital. The most stupid accident in the world Thursday, 9 p.m. My house is a mess

We all have had those days – when no one seems to understand a thing we say in Mandarin, everything is chaos, and it seems like the universe is out to get you somehow. This is what my friends and I call having a ‘China day’; a day when living in China is excruciatingly frustrating

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When in 2010 I moved to Hangzhou, in China, my excitement for the new adventure that was about to begin was certainly greater than the knowledge that I was moving to a city where I knew absolutely no one. If you add that I barely spoke Chinese and had just signed a two-year contract to

This article was written by Taylor Hartwell of Re Orient Yourself If you’ve ever visited China, been on the internet, or read a newspaper, you might be aware that there’s a bit of an air quality issue here. And by “issue,” I mean choking layers of toxic smog that make the wasteland of Mad Max