Biased Chinese

In general, China is exclusive to foreigners, up until now, only 72000 foreign immigrates living in China. Compared to the size of this country’s population, it counts for nothing. And there are two major places that are mainly chosen by foreigners to settle down in China. One is Guangdong province, the other is Yunnan province. The capital of Guangdong is called Guangzhou, which is also a hub for...

Hi there, happy new year! And today I’m going to introduce you a group of Chinese patients who could be your future best friend from China. They have a clinically diagnosed disease called political depression. Symptoms include a depressed or irritable mood for most of the day along with thoughts and feelings of sadness, emptiness or hopelessness. And most importantly, the loss of the thoughts and...

Let me put it straight. I’m fine with Tibetan, Uighur Muslims, democracy activists and pro-independence Taiwanese, but I, as an educated mainlander, just can’t accept you western media included Falun Gong with them, even , to my surprise, The Economist did so. I can only accept that it is an organisation that goes against the Chinese communist party. And I fine with the idea that enemy’s enemy is...

When I was 7 years old, my village was turned into blocks of residential buildings on the original spot. And somehow I remember my grandma has told me in her casual chat that our community was built by prisoners. When I was a kid, I barely remember anything in my childhood, but this remark stay in my head all the time till now. As a kid, I had justified the fact to myself like, they were in prison...

This week in mainland China, most people are discussing one short video popped out on Nov, 15th. A young couple from Zhengzhou, Henan province were beat up by the guards of Sunac China Holding limited when they were reclaiming the promotional bonus promised by the developer before. Every element in this news is actually not new at all in China. The reason why this couple got so much attention is t...

According to the data published in 2020, the number of Chinese people who were born after the year of 1990 is around 520 million, accounting for 37% of China’s population. They together are forming a new reality in this country. And I am one of them. I was born in 1992, the crucial year that the old communist party leader Deng Xiaoping compromised and gave a final call on the Reform and Opening-Up...

If you mean to do business in China, or if you have been doing so, after this episode, please correct me if you can. Let’s start from the most recent case. On November 3rd, 2023 (yeah, it occurred just last week) a financial company in Shanghai took a steel manufacturer in Jiangsu into the court under Jiangsu jurisdiction, and sued it for 10 billion RMB compensation. And the reason? The company in...

Once my British friend asked me “What do you think of the idea of unification?” She was asking me about “Taiwan issue”. And I answered “Of course, there will be unification because we are of the same culture and history, but the problem is, by which side to be unified; personally, I, as mainlander, prefer to be unified by Taiwan, you know what I mean” She answered “ I see”. She is one of my best f...

Love you, love your dog. Lock you, lock your money. This is the overall conclusion of my 30 years life in China. After going through abusive childhood, traumatic exams-oriented selection system, patriarchal Confucius, ideological propaganda, cyber police, and the last end barrier I found is, unexpectedly, a bank card. If you ask me how far away are Chinese people from the world, I’d say a bank car...

This week marks the turning point of China’s Zero-Covid policy. Overnight, the lockdown was lifted in major cities of China, to put it accurately, it happened on Wednesday. Yeah, no bluffing, it came overnight. The propaganda also made a U-turn this week. It began to downplay the severity of the virus (or you can say they finally admit it) which it has portrayed as a monster for three years. Propa...

I don’t like any China expert or you may call it sinologist whose Chinese sucks. I can’t help sneering every time I heard some foreigners talk about China and explain why china did this or did that, then I heard his spoken Chinese sounds like a moron....Honestly, I understand How difficult it is to learn Chinese. And I personally suspect that the current regime doesn’t want foreigners to fully mas...

Last weekend, a wave of protests, triggered by the fire in Ulumuqi, burst out in several cities of China, including Beijing, Shanghai, and Chengdu. Video clips recording these protests flooded on the Internet, outside the realm of China of course. At home, WeChat Accounts that spread them got frozen or sealed as warning, some protestors were (quote) “invited for tea talk” in the police station, an...