Coffee or Save?
A brand new year is around the corner and New Year’s Resolutions are brewing in many people’s minds. Could saving be one of them for 2011? Could it be as simple as turning on your coffeemaker?
If We Allow It
When someone back home, wherever that may be, asks us about life in Shanghai, we have a wide variety of answers, depending on who is asking. To our family, we may say how big the city is, or comment about its growth rate. To our…
Are You Living in Sin?
In Shanghai, as with the rest of the world, cohabitation is becoming more and more accepted by both locals and Westerners. But is it a good idea?
Disposable Chopsticks—Friend or Foe?
The estimated 45 billion pairs of chopsticks used every year in China are produced from 25 million fully grown trees. It’s enough to make even the most un-eco-friendly and wasteful consumers amongst us flush bright crimson with embarrassment. Or is it?
What Exactly is a Laowai?
All expats here in China have read or heard that laowai is the colloquial term for “foreigner,” but have you ever wondered if that definition is even accurate?
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