Gay lifestyle and issues in China
Stephanie Cobon battles a hangover while considering the increasingly visible gay lifestyle culture in China: I kept my eyes tightly shut and became conscious of the hot mass sitting at the bottom of my… Read More
Tag Archive: china
China and institutionalised amnesia
I’m standing at exit A of the Second Worker’s Cultural Palace metro station and it’s 3pm. All the details are correct, I’ve checked three times in the last 15 minutes. Sweat is sliding… Read More
Getting a Blind Massage in China
I’ve always wanted to be the kind of person who enjoys getting a massage. It’s what easy-going, mythically under-analytical people and sports people do. Just as, to some, a bath evokes such pleasantries… Read More
Personal space and crossing roads in China
My lovely friend Laura unknowingly dribbles spectacular, if not insane life-advice on a regular basis. It can be like panning for gold and occasionally, applying it to everyday life can be just plain… Read More
Guangzhou, pollution & nature paraphernalia
Australian Stephanie Cobon is currently living in China. Following last week’s eventful visit to the hospital, this week she’s getting mighty confused by nature paraphernalia: Back in Sydney, my old housemate puts on workshops… Read More
China and its little absurdities – Guangzhou
It’s hard to feel culture-shock when you come from a country as multicultural as Australia. I still don’t think that’s an ethnocentrically obnoxious claim to make, which is why, from the floor of the… Read More
Chinese New Year: Best Bars in Shanghai
Former Shanghai resident, Carol Bowditch, tells us about the best places to whet-your-whistle there to celebrate the Chinese New Year. It was Chinese New Year on Friday, with 2014 bringing a change of… Read More
Music: Free Rainbow Chan Remix!
Backseat your bummer vibes and take a listen to Nick Zinner’s remix of Haircut by Rainbow Chan. You’ll be well on the way to busting public dance-moves and bad-bitching curious onlookers. The Sydney savant of… Read More
Xiao Zhong Talks of Pairs
Somethingyousaid.com introduced Shanghai band, Pairs, a while back, labeling them as being a couple of ‘ace cunts’, which, if you’re not from Australia, means that we’re fond of them, and they are good.… Read More