"Brainwashing" -- where did the word come from,what do we use it to mean? Mutant Palm's elegant write up, with pictures, references, and links to Edward Hunter's 1950 book down to use in Chinese today.

In China, “Man’s Best Friend” has had a hard lot served him simply from the viewpoint of Chinese language culture. Recently, for the Year of the Dog, one popular gift, to offer wishes of prosperity, was the gift of a dog.

A Chinese author trying to demonstrate the problems of Chinglish in other people's lives, instead shows himself to be fairly confused.

Culture shock, the other way around. Ben Ross translates for a Chinese delegation in Kansas City. They think Americans are fat.

I have been stopped on the street, surreptitiously (and occasionally blatantly) photographed, been offered jobs, interviewed by journalists, and overheard people opine about whether or not they approve of me. But I am not famous. No, my skin, my genetic heritage, my physiology is famous. Because I'm white.