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• 28 March 2015

  Chinese vs German Bureaucracy: A Comparison

  The New York Times recently wrote an article about the Chinese middle class and the maze of red tape citizens here experience. For example, the article talks about married women having to get a mandatory birth permit whichactually expires after...

• 04 January 2015

  5 Apps Making My Life Easier in China

  One major difference between the first time I moved abroad and this time around is having a smartphone. Admittedly, I was a bit slow to jump on the smartphone bandwagon and only got one at the beginning of 2014. My main reason to finally cave was ...

• 12 December 2014

  Discovering Shanghai via Its Vinyl Stores

  Not only have I been figuring out how to buy vinyl on Taobao.com, I also decided that in a city as big as Shanghai, there had to be some interesting record shops I could discover. Again, the mentality is that maybe I can find interesting releases ...

• 08 December 2014

  Figuring Out Chinese E-Commerce Websites

  Now that I've been here for about a month, I'm starting to get into the daily grind of living in China. Most of my time is spent job searching, discovering the city, or doing mundane tasks like grocery shopping. The latter two are always an advent...

• 22 November 2014

  Job Search & Interviewing Adventures in China

  I've now been in Shanghai for about four weeks keeping myself busy by looking for jobs -- sending out resumes, going to job fairs, doing interviews, and networking a lot. It's definitely been a learning experience and at times has been surprising,...