Blog Tag - laowai

Mandarin Month: Is it Offensive to Be Called a Laowai?
It's probably one of the first Mandarin words we expats learn in China, mainly because it's said out loud (or shouted) at us by many a local, and...
A Story Only China Expats Will Mingbai
This post was reposted from smalltownlaowai.com. You can find the original article here. If you don't know what the incorporated pinyin terms are in...
Don't Eat So Much! Eat More! Chinese Girlfriends and Their Top 10 Complaints About Foreign Boyfriends
No relationship is perfect, and no one in a relationship is a less perfect than the foreign man dating the Chinese woman. This is summed up by an...
Chinese-Foreigner Dating: One Woman's Perspective
Jocelyn Eikenburg hails from Ohio and met her Chinese husband in Hangzhou. For the past few years she's been blogging on Speaking of China – where...
Favoring the Foreigners: Do Laowai Have it Easier in China than Waidiren?
Chinasmack has posted a translation of a video that's been making the rounds on Youku and Youtube contrasting the living situations and standards of...
Book Review: Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China
The expat is a curious species, especially the China variety – so often found shunning the local language for a dialect more given to bragging...
Weekend Live Music Roundup: The Gar, Dead Farmers, Scream Night and Laowais
The international acts front is a bit quiet this weekend, but sometimes we need only one band to keep it loud and crazy. Aussie punks Dead Farmers...