Mincius.com

A Blog for the expats in Yantai

The Classical Chinese TV Shows of All Time

You might get to know about China since 2008 Olympics or earlier. It might aslo make you wonder, as the centre of Asia, why Chinese culture is so different compare to western culture. How to get to know the essence of Chinese culture? The media might manipulate the true but they do tell you something. As a local, I would recommand you some classical Chinese TV shows which can help you understand Chinese culture in an efficient way.

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Fake Franchise Stores Grouped Up in China

You are not going to believe this but it is really happening somewhere in China. Furthermore, those “franchise stores” are on the same street!!

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Dating Chinese Girl for Dummies

To be honest, It’s easy to hook up with Chinese girls for those foreigners, especially for those people who have big nose and blue eyes. Why? Because Chinese just don’t see enough foreigners. They might easy to hook up with but they are hard to maintain(or maybe you don’t want to last long). Anyway, here are some basic rules you should be followed when you are dating Chinese girl. By the way, these rules only work for Chinese born and raised girls.

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How to access blocked websites from China

As we know China has imposed strong censorship on the internet. Since we already promised that we won’t publish any politics related materials, here we just offer you a way to look outside the window.

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Jolin Tsai’s new English Album — Love Exercise

The pop queen –Jolin Tsai has released her new English album “Love Exercise”.  This is her second English album. If you ever want to look into Chinese music, this might be a good start. (Direct download link provided)

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What’d happened in the last 3 months?

It’s been 3 months since the mincius.com lanched. What’d happened in the last 3 months? With the help of Google Analytics tools, the numbers are easy to figure out. We have 1,013 unique visiters from 33 countries!

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Help Wanted

I’ve been pretty busy recently. Anyone of you wants to be a regular blogger of mincius? There is no specific requirement for this job. If you are in Yantai right now or you were in Yantai before and you like to help people, please do not hesitate to contact us.

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A Collection of old posters

I was surfing the internet and somehow i found these posters. You don’t see a lot of them in modern China but it surely brings back old memories.

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QQ games — Today’s time killer

QQ games and OUR games(联众) are the most popular online gaming services in China. Since our games’ register process is too complicated to be done, here i’m writing a review about how to get QQ games to work. I assume you already have a QQ number. If not, please check our early post.

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Re: International or English school in Yantai

Our first request is about international or English school in Yantai. I did some dig. It turns out that we have 2 options. The one i would recommend you is Yew Wah International Education School of Yantai.

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