Calling A Spoon A Spoon
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While many non-Chinese people in Singapore are competent users of chopsticks, even Singaporean Chinese people seldom use chopsticks when they are having casual rice meals. Chopsticks are almost exclusively used…
August 2021
Jackie Chan, Hero On Stage, Bootlicker Off Stage
Chinese New Year show 2020. CCTV boasts that it was watched by 23% of the population. That 2020 installment featured Jackie Chan singing “Does it look like my country is…
Shameless 5毛 Being Himself
5毛不是傻，就是坏. 。They are fully aware that they are dogs barking for their masters for some benefit. Zheng Guocheng is (was?) perhaps YouTube’s Number One 5毛 . Unlike Weibo and other…
China’s Top Emigrant City, Taishan
Comrade Shi explores a very important city in Guangdong Province. It’s called Taishan (Toisan) 台山. Dubbed 全国第一桥乡, Taishan is famous for its emigrants. About 1.6 million of its former residents…