4/31: Why people won’t normally help you in an accident in China?

One of my biggest cultural shocks in China was watching someone having an accident, but not being able to help them.

Finding an apartment in Shanghai

It sounds hard, getting to a new country or moving to the big Chinese city, you don’t speak the…

28/31: Scooters in China

At the beginning of the 31 challenge I told you about my life in Shanghai. One of the topics was how I moved around…

31/31: Taobao, Chinese Online Shopping Giant

I have been saving the best for last. At some point, I talked about Taobao and how it has become the main player on Chinese online shopping.

Taobao is a website and mobile app for buying and selling everything and I really…

8/31: How to live in China without speaking Chinese

There are some languages similar to your own, others that are easy to catch, and then there’s Chinese.

20/31: Doing theatre in China

Theatre in English in Shanghai is becoming more and more popular. As an actor one of the things I wanted to…

27/31: Shanghai Tower

They say that no one remembers the second place, but when we are talking about the tallest buildings the second place is as impressive as the first one. This is one of the things that people who live in Shanghai can see in the skyline, Shanghai Tower is the tallest building in China, the…

WeChat

You may have heard of it, “It’s like the Chinese WhatsApp, isn’t it?”. That’s maybe the best description for people who don’t live in China, but here WeChat is more than just a messaging app.

7/31: China already went cashless

It is time for lunch at Shanghai, like everyday I go out with my coworkers, we just ended lunch, the bill comes, I don’t have my wallet with me, someone pays, I ask him how much it was, ¥35 each (~5 USD), I open WeChat look for her profile, click on transfer, that’s all.

2/31: So, what do you do here? Part 2

Living in China wasn’t my plan, but now I wonder why it took me so long.