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One of my best ‘finds’ this year has been the Sinica podcast. At last – a podcast discussing current affairs in China in an objective fashion, with hosts that clearly understand China.

For the first 18 or so episodes, I’ve agreed with everything they’ve said. Well not every single thing – there have been moments when I’ve said "Hang on, what about … ?" to my mp3 player. In each case however, one of the hosts subsequently chipped in and raised my point. As a result, I’ve developed a healthy respect for both the hosts and the show.

With the recent episode discussing China Apologists (or Panda Huggers), I found myself not quite agreeing with the host for the first time – so here are my thoughts on the issue. (more…)

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Although I no longer live in China, I’m still trying to learn Chinese and I’m always on the lookout for new Chinese terms to learn. Occasionally, I’ll come across Chinese terms during every day life in the West, which is always cool: just going about my daily business and then all of a sudden some Chinese term pops up and hits me.

So when the Zhu Zhu Pets Hamsters came along, I thought “That’s obviously Chinese, Zhu Zhu probably means pig pig”. (more…)

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It has been several months since I last made a post on this blog. The reason for this is that we’ve moved from China to Australia. This has been a big move and has meant that there’s been no time for blogging.

We’ve now settled in somewhat, so the blog will start moving again. (more…)

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