Blog Tag - expat

Swedish Expat Transforms His 10sqm, RMB 400 per Month Beijing Dump Into a Cozy Apartment
If squeezing yourself, and all your stuff, into a claustrophobia-inducing 10-square-meter basement apartment sounds like a nightmare, then prepare to...
Planning Ahead: How to Go About Getting A Life Insurance Policy
Recently I have been asked by a lot of families in Beijing about Life Insurance. Maybe my article two months ago on wills and trusts got people...
Lessons to be Learned from Cautionary Tale of Expat Teen Jailed After Bar Fight
A melodramatic Wall Street Journal article about a young Beijing expatriate's month-long stint in a Beijing jail serves as a reminder to all of us to...
Best of the Blog: November
Every month we tally the hits from thebeijinger.com and bring you the top five most viewed blogs from our website. Here's went large in November: 1...
We're Number Three! China Places Third on HSBC Expatriate Life Poll
It's great to be an expatriate in China, which has ranked third on a survey of over 100 countries conducted by HSBC in terms of compensation for...
American Translator and Longtime Beijinger Sidney Shapiro Dies at 98
In the measuring contest that is expatriate life in Beijing, no one could top Sidney Shapiro, who moved to China in 1947 and died here on October 18...
This Is Sanlitun: Behind the Scenes With Cast and Crew
This is Sanlitun just received a distribution deal and will go on general release in China after the New Year. Here, we celebrate their success with...
Talking TCM: 999 Ganmaoling Keli, A Cold Remedy
Nothing makes a foreign country feel more foreign than being ill and not finding the right remedies. Each week here in Talking TCM, we introduce a...
We've been looking in our classifieds recently, and found a couple of rather unusual job offers available right now. This got us thinking about...