Comments on: What Neverbeens don’t know about China

By: Will

Will — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:54:25 +0000

Why would anyone think the Chinese are commies? I hear people say that all the time but they never offer a sentence starting with “because”…

By: wong

wong — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:22:51 +0000

“You’re not cool enough to be in the CPC.”

By: Ron West

Ron West — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:23:31 +0000

Haiku for Maggie with play on ‘East’ meets West’s.

East……. brought us the bride.

Warming our chilled wintry hearts

leaving……. from the West.

By: Ben Ross

Ben Ross — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:32:30 +0000

While I was in China, I was always somewhat intrigued by friends who would constantly be giving me sports scores and updates, as if somehow the Internet didn’t exist in China. The language thing is interesting too. I think most “neverbeens” assume that there are 2 languages in China, Mandarin and Cantonese. Judging by how many Cantonese speakers there are abroad, I can see how this assumption would be made.

By: Rebekah Pothaar

Rebekah Pothaar — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:55:43 +0000

Excellent post, Ryan. As a fellow Canadian, I laughed hard at our country’s misconceptions about China. I added this blog post to our travel forum: chinatravel.net, where it joins other posts from other China Bloggers who have been so kind as to agree to share their work with our new travel community. Keep the good stuff coming. It’s always a joy to read.

Best Regards,

Rebekah

By: Matt Schiavenza - Is China Communist? If Not, Then What Is It?

Matt Schiavenza - Is China Communist? If Not, Then What Is It? — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:57:54 +0000

[...] the midst of an interesting post on common misconceptions people have about China, the Humanaught writes that “communism is a [...]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:27:27 +0000

@I<3ZG: Haha, I don’t think I could live in a place like China with out a couple good bars – and not as a comfort, but as a coping mechanism.

@Chris: How about just the “Chinese Characteristics Party” – CCP… don’t really even need to change stuff.

@Tom: It’s a stretch to say the habits of Uighurs are the habits of the Chinese. And I dare say that most people in the countryside (of every country) don’t dress like dem dar cityfolk.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:21:35 +0000

They use oven to bake flat bread in the western provinces link Xinjian.

Chinese in big ciites dress like the rest of the world. People in poor rural areas in the west do dress differently.

Unlike Canada, there are plenty of Beijing and other northern Chinese restaurants in US cities.

So called Cantonese restaurants in North America and Europe don’t serve real Cantonese foods. They are modified.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:34:17 +0000

Good to see you back, man. No. 5 definitely seems to be the sticky one, although from the phone calls and emails I get, the poisonous toys/food/air due to unbridled free markets seems to throw everyone for a loop.

Kristof and WuDunn called it Market Leninism in China Wakes.

I vote for renaming the CCP the “We’re in charge and we’ll call ourselves what we damn well please, with Chinese characteristics” party.

By: Woaizhongguo

Woaizhongguo — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:23:43 +0000

A friend in England asked me once what I got up to at the weekend. I said I went to a few bars and got plastered. He responded : you have BARS in China? Erm, yes, one or two!