Archive for January, 2008

Image Source: Match smokeLicense

This is follow up to my previous post on smoking in China. I just want to highlight a related experience we just had.

Two days after my previous post, a stranger visited our house to look at something we were selling. No sooner than he’d walked in, did he produce a cigarette packet and offer me one. I refused automatically, using wo bu chou this time. He nodded and said something like “oh, bu chou, bu chou, okay” and proceeded to light up. (more…)

Image Source: A smoke after..License

There have been lots of news stories about smoking in China lately. That’s not surprising because smoking plays a very large part in Chinese life. (more…)

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I recently read an amusing news article asking whether Beijing taxi drivers should stop eating garlic and onions during the Beijing Olympic Games. (more…)

Welcome to JobsInChina.com. This blog has been a long time coming…

I first came to live in China in 2002 and was immediately struck by life here. Everything seemed fresh, new and … unusual. I took hundreds of photos and made notes of things I wanted to write about. I should have started a blog then, to capture those exciting new experiences. Alas, blogging was still relatively new and it was not to be. (more…)