http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ Stories of a Quarterlife Crisis Overseas en Vox Sun, 17 Dec 2006 00:13:09 +0800 Copyright 2006 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/ten-reasons-why-mandarin-chinese-will-kick-your-ass.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Golden Boy) http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/ten-reasons-why-mandarin-chinese-will-kick-your-ass.html?_c=feed-rss http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/ten-reasons-why-mandarin-chinese-will-kick-your-ass.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 17 Dec 2006 00:13:09 +0800 10. Mandarin is a tonal language. If you say "hua hua" with a rising tone, it means "slippery". If you say it with a flat high tone, it means "licentious" or "womanizing". If you saying with a descending tone, it means "drawing". If you are to... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/ten-reasons-why-mandarin-chinese-will-kick-your-ass.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2252a89c5549d00cd9704f36d4cd5?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/a-sheep-in-wolfs-clothing.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Golden Boy) http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/a-sheep-in-wolfs-clothing.html?_c=feed-rss http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/a-sheep-in-wolfs-clothing.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 09 Dec 2006 23:38:32 +0800 "Damn!" says Pierre, reading the daily news. "怎么了? What's wrong Pierre?" I ask. "日本人真可恶! It's those damned Japanese!" he says, slamming his fist on his desk. "Oh. You hate them for historical reasons," I say. There's a lot of anti-Japanese sen... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/a-sheep-in-wolfs-clothing.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2252a89c5549d00cdf7ebae5e094f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/butch-and-butcher.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Golden Boy) http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/butch-and-butcher.html?_c=feed-rss http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/butch-and-butcher.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 05 Dec 2006 10:22:44 +0800 "PIIIIINK!" Quom, fifth horseman of the apocalypse, comes barreling across the office with a pink collared shirt in her thick hands. She stops in the vicinity of my workstation and rubs her crew cut vigorously, staring down the room. Quom yells... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/butch-and-butcher.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2252a89c5549d00cdf7ea5d7d094f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/shaolin-soccer.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Golden Boy) http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/shaolin-soccer.html?_c=feed-rss http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/shaolin-soccer.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:37:48 +0800 Who’d have thought the soccer scene would be so healthy in Shanghai? I joined an expat league here, and racial clustering being what it is, the league is unofficially segregated by race. The American contingency here, sucking on baseball bats an... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/shaolin-soccer.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2252a89c5549d00cd96ffef364cd5?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> china soccer http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/white-collar-woes.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Golden Boy) http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/white-collar-woes.html?_c=feed-rss http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/white-collar-woes.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 03 Nov 2006 20:31:15 +0800 Ah work. What have I to say about thee. Here are three things I hate about the retail industry: 1: Meeting with simpering baboons. A few days ago we held audience with a gutless, kowtowing American who was all form and no function. His ridicul... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/white-collar-woes.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2252a89c5549d00cd96f858684cd5?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> work china retail http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/md.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Golden Boy) http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/md.html?_c=feed-rss http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/md.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 03 Nov 2006 20:21:50 +0800 An inside scoop has it that more than 10,000 retailers in Shanghai are going to start offering fingerprint payment by early next year. Sweet Mother of Neptune! That just can't be true!! I hope my little piggies are safe. Can you imagine some b... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/md.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2252a89c5549d00cd96f858044cd5?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> technology http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/insolence.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Golden Boy) http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/insolence.html?_c=feed-rss http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/insolence.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:51:25 +0800 Damn you, unknown Chinese character. I see you sitting there. Complacent. Smug. You think you’re all that because you’ve got 18 strokes. Want to hear a secret? I think you suck big doody. You weren’t at my fifth birthday party, when I was g... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/insolence.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2252a89c5549d00ccff91f8a8d756?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> chinese http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/questionable-moral-fiber.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Golden Boy) http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/questionable-moral-fiber.html?_c=feed-rss http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/questionable-moral-fiber.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 09 Oct 2006 22:10:58 +0800 Felix’s brother and I are waiting at the airport to receive some foreign hotshots. The plane is an hour late, so I have a rare opportunity to engage one of Thailand’s mightiest business honchos in light conversation. We talk about terrorism and ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/questionable-moral-fiber.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2252a89c5549d00ccff8985776731?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> evil http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/california-dreaming.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Golden Boy) http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/california-dreaming.html?_c=feed-rss http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/california-dreaming.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 04 Oct 2006 21:42:29 +0800 I’m at lunch with one of our suppliers. Perrin specializes in bamboo products. Bamboo has all kinds of qualities that make it superior to wood. It’s hard as a hammer. It grows to full size in two years. What really surprised me is that it reg... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/california-dreaming.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2252a89c5549d00c2252b204e8fdb?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/queuing-is-for-sissies.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Golden Boy) http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/queuing-is-for-sissies.html?_c=feed-rss http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/queuing-is-for-sissies.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:47:39 +0800 Ah, the line-cutting. Oh, how the lines here are cut. The average Westerner here responds with a standard sequence of emotions. First comes shock, shock that ten little old ladies have just cut in front of him. His mouth hangs open in disbelie... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://shanghaied.vox.com/library/post/queuing-is-for-sissies.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2252a89c5549d00c2252c0e0c8e1d?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> line cutting