off topic, but d and t are known to swap places in all languages. for instance, you'll find geographic distributions of people that pronounce butter as "budder." the same is true for sounds like p and b (maybe this partially explains the earlier romanization of beijing as peking) among many others. maybe at some point the 武當幫 was pronounced with a t on the 當.
dont know... unless you are working for an international company, can't imagine you will be making more money in china than a western country.
I was just going for a wu tang joke.
I was born in Hong Kong but I migrated to an predominately English speaking part of Asia as a child. I'm effectively bilingual and I identify myself as Chinese. I use wechat and momo more than whatsapp or tinder/okc but I use Facebook and not renren wang.
if you don't look chinese, you aren't chinese. if you can pass as chinese, you might be accepted as chinese at some point, although if you're an ABC you will be far different culturally and socially, and they will notice those differences. i would very much doubt any china expat would consider themselves chinese. even long term residents (and many of these long term residents who've been there for 20 or 30 are only there on 5 or 10 year visas!) wouldn't consider themselves chinese. there is a process to become naturalized, but i would bet the total number of white people who have become chinese citizens is a couple hundred at most.
ShadowSocks for android is free, works ok.
Most of the people I know prefer autonavi, I like it better as well.
Any VPN solution you'll chose will have andriod instructions.
I was at Chengdu's panda sanctuary a couple years ago and you could pay a good chunk of coin to get your picture taken with the young ones, as in have them sitting on your lap.
It wasn't gross if you've seen animals/humans give birth before, but if you're squeamish around that sort of thing it definitely isn't advisable. I think it was filmed in the mid or late 90s on a camcorder. As a result, the image quality wasn't great. No thought was put into the camera angles, so it was like watching a shaky cam in a film when something goes horribly wrong. I half expected a xenomorph to appear at any second and kill everyone. The great thing is, the video takes place in this cute little viewing area, so the place is packed with tourists right before it starts. As soon as the video starts playing and you hear the screams, see the fluids, and witness the camera swing wildly around, many people begin leaving.
As the greatest Chinese philosopher in history said "cash rule everything around me". For 1000 yuan, you can even get to live your fantasy of role playing Ron Artest and hold a baby panda who will be your friend forever. Plebs admission only get you a picture with a non baby panda. I went with the Chris Hansen package of course, because baby pandas woooo!
