• How come a story about a Chinese kid getting stuck in a washing machine gets world wide viewers? Sometimes I don’t get the internet. #
• #feelgood10 Chinese dumplings, son, wife, brother, Peet’s Coffee, Sam Adams, Red Sox, cartooning, Chinese characters, movies. #
• HEADLINE: “Chinese vice premier meets Chairman of UPS” This is when “WHAT CAN RED DO FOR YOU?” meets “WHAT CAN BROWN DO FOR YOU?” #
• “A phrase book with hand gestures will do in the absence of an 11-language e-translator on your next trip to China.” -SETH KUGEL NYT #
• The best use for Chinese gov’t $ is to pay for long vacations for US workers. There is no reason for us to be upset. -Dean Baker UK GUARDIAN #
• At breakfast this morning I cut a banana for my 2.9 y/o. He looked at the knife and said in Chinese, “这是刀，很危险! This is a knife, dangerous.” #
• We give the Chinese pieces of paper and they give us goods. It may seem like a pretty good deal for the US. -John Lott http://ht.ly/3i9qZ #
• In the end, China may remain formally united, but its power distributed among its regions, like before Mao. -Jeff Lukens http://ht.ly/3ib3S #
• RT @jennygao: Snacking Chengdu: 20 legendary Chengdu snacks and where to find them. http://bit.ly/hxpaNa #sichuan Seriously mouth watering! #
• Explain the logic of a 24 y/o Chinese girl who’s already famous for her looks getting facial bone grinding surgery. I’ll never get women. #
• “Thanks to its 1 Child policy to control its population, China is going to age fast over the next few years, unlike India.” -Peter Day BBC #
• Western Movies In Chinese Translation: http://bit.ly/hRWKme #Chinesecomics #
• Our little 2.9y/o’s tummy hurts. After we ate a bit of lunch he was ok. He said in weird Chinese: “肚子走了. Tummy left.” I guess he’s ok. #
• Got an HP All in 1 Officejet from @newegg 1 print cartridge made in Singapore, other Malaysia. Directions printed in China. BUT NO USB!? #
• RT @sweetmandarin: “Christmas at Sweet Mandarin” http://youtu.be/fzP9IT8VIYI?a Looks like an amazing restaurant! Added to my bucket list! #
• I’ve read that China has tainted baby formula. Tainted drywall. Tainted toys. Now Tainted blood? What isn’t tainted? Come on China!? #
• “China is not a belligerent country. We can be friends. It’s North Korea that’s crazy. Let’s team up and get rid of it.” -William Tucker #
• Big NEWS! China passenger train hits 300+ miles an hour! Unfortunately passengers complained that there was no hot water for their noodles. #
• News You Can’t Use: In Baoding, China’s Hebei Province, they just found a cow that has a horn in his head. The “Unicorn Cow” is a cash cow! #
• “China announces new crackdown on product piracy” This will be as effective as a Romulan Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Policy in StarFleet Academy. #



• Myself and our 2.9 y/o took a walk outside and saw many birds on telephone wires. He told me in Chinese, “小鸟看车车。 Birds are watching cars.” #
• Keyboard Drool: Asian Dumpling Tips http://www.asiandumplingtips.com/ @aqnguyen Seriously, I’m getting hungry and I’ve already eaten! #
• SITES I FIND: The Choons. A Singapore couple living in Shanghai with their cute-as-can-be little girl. http://ht.ly/3jOVD Great site! #
• DILEMMA: Chinese American violinist Lynn Chang asked to play for Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel Prize ceremony. But violinist still has family in China. #
• When I grow up I want to become a geologist and then get detained in China for looking at rocks, uh I mean state secrets. #
• “We’re intent on reaching consumers wherever they want great coffee.” -Troy Alstead Starbucks CFO. More Expansion: China. http://ht.ly/3jUSH #
• Seeds You Plant Today: http://bit.ly/fxWtKR #Chinesecomics #
• News We Already Knew: WikiLeaks reveals that Chinese government ordered Google Hacks. Ho hum. nothing to see here. **YAWN** #
• Can’t wait to see the #wikileaks movie in a couple years. Most likely the script will be leaked and I’ll watch the Chinese pirated DVD! #
• “US high-rise market is pretty much dead. For us, China in the next 10 to 15 years is going to be a huge market.” -Dan Winey, architect #
• “You can do a lot more experimentation in China. You can do things here that you can’t do anywhere else in the world.” -Dan Winey, architect #
• Today MX asked our 2.9 y/o if he needed to go number 2. “要大便！wanna go number 2!” He answered in Chinese: “不要谢谢妈妈。No thank you mommy.” #
• RT @shanghaitwtr: my apartment compound had a xmas party yesterday w/ saint nick and presents – i was the only foreigner. “CLASSIC CHINA!” #
• Uni of Michigan has announced that the Giant Panda was the 1st to lose the carnivorous gene and switched to bamboo millions of years ago. #
• Wanna buy a car ONLINE? Geely, a Chinese car maker will be selling their cars on Taobao later this month. Can’t even kick the tires first! #
• Our 2.9 y/o just told me that he is happy. I asked him in Chinese: “为什么？why?” he smiled and said, “我不知道这个。I don’t know this.” #
• “Truck accident leaves one dead, causes acid spill in NW China” The acid spill ate the road away. Motorists said you could see to America! #
• USA Today reports in a new book the 3 wise men in the Christmas story came from China. Bringing 金，弗兰克 and 门儿 right? http://ht.ly/3l1Zc #
• RT @niubi: RT @cmphku: Comic China: Untouchable Prosperity http://bit.ly/dY8XrV “Those 3 mountains are the same around the world!” #
• Google ebooks now live. Amazing collection of free stuff. Example: Betrand Russell’s 1922 THE PROBLEM OF CHINA. http://ht.ly/3l2n7 #

• 3 Alternative Uses For Chopsticks: http://bit.ly/i5S3cK #Chinesecomics #
• A bad night with our 2.9 y/o sick with 拉肚子. In the AM he was ok but 拉肚子 again. He said, “不要告诉妈妈，他哭了。 Don’t tell mommy because she’ll cry.” #
• How the Mongol Invasion of 1206 Impacts China Today http://trunc.it/d3vae China in the 2000s is similar in many ways to China in 1200s. #
• Only 1 in 5 Americans said that the U.S. economy is the world’s strongest—nearly half picked China instead. -Allstate/NatJo Heartland poll #
• To the bank today our 2.9 y/o asked in Chinese where we were going. “我们去银行. We’re going to the bank.” he then asked, “买钱吗？ To buy money?” #
• A Chinese train went 302 miles per hour. Some said “Great!” But the guy in the bathroom called it “the worst day of my life.” -Jimmy Fallon #
• In the Sydney Morning Herald they report that Australia would side with the US if a war with China broke out. Imagine the awkward laughs! #
• Do Not Forget The Rice:http://bit.ly/eNdsZS #Chinesecomics #
• “China must guide North Korea to a better future. No country in the world has more influence in Pyongyang than China.” -Adm Mike Mullen #
• Headline: China computer virus creator donates cash for panda. “Did he infect the panda’s secure network? Hacking into the bamboo supply?!” #
• Chinese Character For Prisoner: http://bit.ly/fW4Ocg #Chinesecomics #
• Sunday Printouts: NY TIMES about too many graduates in China and not enough jobs. Welcome to the real world ant tribes! http://ht.ly/3nVqW #
• Good to know Chinese: 马斯洛需求层次论 [mǎ sī luò xū qiú céng cì lùn] Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Who is Maslow and why does he need a hierarchy? #
• Christmas concert at church tonight my 2.9 y/o and I saw the 牧羊人 Shepherds and he said in Chinese, “他们没有穿鞋子！They aren’t wearing shoes!” #
• Finally was able to get an e-mail sign up list for MandMx.com. Mail Chimp is great. Does it work for G-mail though? Sign up one and all! #
• A 7 y/o girl in Taiwan subsisted on Diet Coke and chocolate which resulted in huge stomach ulcers. They don’t call it ROT GUT for nothing! #
• Recent MLA study shows that Arabic, Korean and Chinese are the fastest growing languages in US colleges. Come on Americans, gotta learn one! #
• Amazing to think that our boy was born 3 years ago today in Shanghai, China. December 14th. 生日快乐！ Happy Birthday buddy! #

• MandMx Twitter Tweets of the Week for 2011-02-22: MandMx Twitter Tweets of the Week for 2… http://bit.ly/eWiDFB #Chinesecomics #
• Podcasts you should subscribe to NOW: China History Podcast http://ht.ly/41KuD Lazlow Montgomery continues through 5,000 years of history! #
• Panda Espresso is a hilarious idea. Somebody in China will take it soon! h/t @pvponline http://ht.ly/41PBr Better get a copyright on it! #
• The 6 tiniest coziest Shanghai cafes http://ht.ly/41USl But they didn’t choose my favorite http://ht.ly/41V1e Vienna Cafe. YUM! #
• Chinese Husband Forgot Valentine’s Day: Speaking of China post. http://bit.ly/fA9Ija #Chinesecomics #
• On @markvranicar post on High Speed Rail a photo of the 西安 to 郑州 train. It’s called the 和谐号 Who calls it the HARMONIOUS LIINE!? Annoying! #
• VIDEO: Shandong Province Drought 山东旱灾: Today’s word is DROUGHT 旱灾 hànzāi These two videos… http://bit.ly/fsVJIX #Chinesecomics #
• Shanghai just got WIFI in all their phone booths. What a great way to put the relics of the past to a good modern use. Do you have to pay? #
• RT @WorldofChinese NEW POST: Looking for Child Beggars on Sina Weibo… http://fb.me/OTfmzsqE Great story! Great way to use Sina Weibo! in reply to WorldofChinese #
• Well I think you can cross US Ambassador to China John Huntsman off the list for possible 2012 Presidential candidates. http://ht.ly/436uz #
• President Ford’s Visit to China 1975 | C-SPAN http://t.co/rBa0Jj4 “What was on the menu, size of crowds, where he went sightseeing.” #
• “Authentic local #Chinese food is the missing part in the bigger picture of the food culture in the US.” -David Shi http://ht.ly/43gap AMEN! #
• Drool on Keyboard: @xianfoods My next stop when I’m in Flushing Queens is Xi’an Famous Foods 西安名吃 looks so good! http://youtu.be/5Q3uSsBvHtY #
• MandMx Radio: Rise and Fall of Yu Jianrong and His Fight for Child Beggars: Shownotes an… http://bit.ly/hnZpgD #Chinesecomics #
• Podcast: Rise and Fall of Yu Jianrong and His Fight for Child Beggars | MandMX.com http://t.co/GWNm4jo via @Digg #
• MandMx Radio: Rise and Fall of Yu Jianrong and His Fight for Child Beggars: Shownotes and Links: China Geeks ori… http://bit.ly/eXdSks #
• My 3 y/o and I were doing Kung Fu moves and when he did a good kick I wanted to do a high 5. Do Kung Fu masters give each other high 5s? #
• Check out this Amazon deal: ‘Fortunate Sons: The 120 Chinese Boys Who Came to America’ by Liel Leibovitz http://amzn.to/ihFuwb #
• Our 3 y/o woke up and told me in English: “My belly button is hungry. 我的肚脐眼饿了!” He said he didn’t know how we were going to feed it! though. #
• Our 3 y/o said, Dad I’m sick. 爸爸，我生病了. I told him that we couldn’t go out to lunch then. He said, Ryan’s not sick! We can go? 瑞恩没有生病！我们可以去吗？ #
• MX is taking Management classes and was looking up Procter & Gamble. In Chinese it’s 宝洁 bǎojié She says it’s a legend in the world. #
• American Jokes At The Chinese Office: http://bit.ly/hvv6VB #Chinesecomics #
• “Motherland, please save us” post on Sina Weibo from Chinese stuck in Libya with no way out. China helped them and now they are home. #
• “It is immoral to rob our children’s future and make them beholden to #China ” -John Boehner Republican OHIO Speaker of the House 2.27.2011 #
• China is planning 45 new airports connecting the country side with big cities. Will the airports look like the train stations soon? #
• Taxi driver from Yunnan had a blade in his face since an attack 4 years ago. Tell him he looks SHARP he won’t laugh. http://ht.ly/44QXF #
• “It came up that afternoon, and it knocked me off my can.” -David Wu Oregon Democrat taking Mental Illness drugs. http://ht.ly/44UWy #
• I love how CNN says that the Chinese police illegally harassed Western journalists. It might be illegal where you’re from but not China! #
• China denies foreign journalists in 北京 were forced to buy student art and attend ¥1,000 tea ceremonies with English majors. RT @charlieflint #

A while back we decided to take a look at twitter and see if we could convert some of the classic pithy lines about China into a comic feature.  Well, we’ve done six so far and there are more to come.  I decided to start in one place though, in Beijing.  Only because we just wanted to focus on one place and then later switch to another place.  I think that with these six tweets and comics that go with them, you can really learn a lot about expat life in Beijing!  Click on the comic to the left to see the original size!  If you’d like your tweets to be made into comics, go here!

1.  First one was @subirubi who tweeted way back about how cold the winters were in Beijing.  I agree.  I’ve been there and froze too.

2.  Then comes @erasedtapes who was in Beijing visiting.  I thought his tweet was quite vivid about the great wall of China so we did our own interpretation of it.

3.  This tweet from @jkpitmann really shows the environmental issues in Beijing.  She arrives back in Beijing and her respiratory system is not happy with her.

4.  I’ve been reading @beijingwithkids now @lantaumama for a while now and she’s always got interesting things that she’s tweeting.

5.  This one tweet from @sarahplusone was too good to let go.  She was voicing her frustration with the Bank of China in a way that many expats I’m sure feel.

6.  One of the co-hosts of the Sinica Podcast, @imagethief always has interesting things to say about life in China.  His site quite interesting and his twitter feed is equally good.

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