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Posted on 1/12/2012
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Foxconn Employees Threaten Mass Suicide
Foxconn, the world’s largest electronic component maker (think: Apple, Amazon, Nintendo, Dell, Panasonic… well, you get the point) is not a nice place to work. So rampant have the suicides been that last year the company made workers sign pledges not to kill themselves.
Via The Atlantic Wire:
As American consumers ogle over shiny new gadgets at this week’s Consumer Electronic’s Show, the workers that make those products are threatening mass suicide for the horrid working conditions at Foxconn. 300 employees who worked making the Xbox 360 stood at the edge of the factory building, about to jump, after their boss reneged on promised compensation, reports English news site Want China Times. It’s not like this is the first time working conditions at Foxconn have made news outside China. But iPhone and Xbox sales surely haven’t lagged in the wake of those revelations and neither Apple nor Microsoft has done much of anything to fix things.
As The Atlantic Wire points out, this week’s This American Life features a trip to a Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China where approximately 350,000 to 450,000 people are employed.
You can listen to the episode here.
Image: Workers at Foxconn via China Southern Weekly
Posted on 12/27/2011
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The New Face of Communism:
A common image, when you think of Chinese communism, is those 60′s retro posters with men and women looking strong under different Communist slogans. You know, things like “Study Mao everyday,” or…
Posted on 12/23/2011
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A Walk in the Woods (with Ben):
There’s no getting around it: my campus is one of the most beautiful in China. The college is nestled in the foothills of Lin’an, and while we have a dirty, fast moving city to the south of the…
Posted on 12/20/2011
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Posted on 12/18/2011
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The One Christmas Tradition China gets Right:
So here we are, a week away from Christmas, and here in China things are not “beginning to look a lot like Christmas.” The weather is bitterly cold at night, no one has that festive feeling, and…
Posted on 12/11/2011
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New in the Snack Aisle:
I’m used to seeing some strange flavored snacks, usually put out by some obscure Chinese snack company. But I was surprised to see this new flavor hit the school store. Cheese Lobster Flavor.
Posted on 12/1/2011
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OMG! I Want to Punch Her and Be Her:
One perky little blond girl has been showing up on some of my favorite blogs lately. First at Study More Chinese and then on Lost Laowai. So who is she? Well, her name is Jessica Beinecke but…
Posted on 11/30/2011
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My New Teaching Policy:
The Chinese school system is pretty strict when it comes to attendance. If a student needs to miss a class because they are sick, or have an appointment, or need to catch a bus, they…
Posted on 11/16/2011
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Hitting up the Food Festival:
Me eating a waffle-like snack. They said it was a Hong Kong specialty and if that is true, I’m pretty psyched for our Hong Kong trip this winter because they were delicious.
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Posted on 11/14/2011
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The One Time I Leave my House Without a Camera….:
I got suckered into being a dancing monkey speaking english for 30-minutes to a group of 3rd graders at our library. before I left the house my hand hovered over my camera. Should I? I decided…
Posted on 11/12/2011
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Pomelo – Totally Worth the Effort:
Every year at about this time we see these huge citrusy things showing up on the fruit stands. Some of them have wrappers with the word “grapefruit” on it, and I’ve never really been…
Posted on 11/10/2011
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Great Wall of Links:
There have been some interesting articles about China lately. Here is a round up of a few of my favorites.
Awesome Commercial - We’ll start off with this hilarious Chinese commercial for 7up. It…
Posted on 11/8/2011
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This Explains a Few Things:
You might have noticed I’ve been a little light on the blog posts lately. I typically average 3 posts a week, but for several weeks I’ve only managed a paltry 2. That’s because I’m busy. Crazy busy….
Posted on 11/1/2011
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Humans can Never do Anything Simply:
On a recent dat trip to Wuzhen we went to the Yida Silk Workshop, a famous old-timey brand of silk that has been making silk tapestries, scarves and other things for over 100 years. In the…
Posted on 10/30/2011
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The Two-Year Hump:
All the pictures in this post are of my current classmates. I brought my camera to class the other day and snapped away.
Before I came to China people told me there was a 6-month…
Posted on 10/26/2011
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Chinglish!:
It’s been awhile since I’ve done a Chinglish entry, and I have a few good ones that I’ve been saving up:
This is technically not Chinglish as the English is perfectly correct, it’s…
Posted on 10/22/2011
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Tea Sets:
As a tea drinker I have to say I am a fan of tea blends. You know, those crazy teas that mix like, 2 different kinds of mint, with chai and black tea and some sort of flower petal and maybe some…
Posted on 10/16/2011
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I asked all the students in my writing classes to make their weekly assignment notebooks special in some way. I wanted them to make it an enjoyable book to write in and also be quickly identifiable so they will be easier to hand back. One of my favorites is Maureen’s. I will definitely never mistake it for anyone else’s.
Posted on 10/14/2011
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Westerners are Pussies:
A few months ago another foreign teacher asked for our help. He had a big cabinet that he wanted moved from the basement of our building to his 2nd-floor apartment in the building next door. It was…
I sprayed some of my owl stencils on really thin Chinese painting practice paper to see how they would paste to things. I found that I really liked them on smooth trees because they completely adhere to the surface in a way that looks natural. In fact from a distance it looks like someone carved the image into the tree. I think I might got for a new line of natural looking wheatpasted images on “wild” surfaces.
Here’s a figure drawing I gave up on half way through because it was…uh…top heavy. But I kind of like the way the figure being only black on black works with the white sheet so I’ll share it.
Posted on 10/12/2011
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My Commute:
My current mode of transportation.
I’ve lived and worked in a lot of places, all with different commutes. When I lived in New Hampshire and worked at a local stationary store, my…
Posted on 10/10/2011
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I Thought it Would be Fun……:
My writing students keep a weekly “adventure journal.” Every week at the start of class I tell them a new adventure to go on some point during the week. Previous adventures have included…
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