About China Charlie:

China Charlie  is a weekly column about living in Dongguan, for those new to Dongguan, new to China, or anyone that likes a good story.  Written by an expat  who first came to Dongguan in 1987,  hopefully this series of articles will be both entertaining and informative.

Welcome to China Charlie

Dongguan Driving Challenges

Fun With Air Travel in China

Vertical Speed Bumps

Language and Culture

Mobile Phones and Other Stuff

Karen Carpenter, Kenny G and the Chinese Water Torture… . .

Dan Gerous, where are you when we need  you?

Life in hotels in the “old days”, a “Moon Shot”, and the saga of the pink panties….

Was There Life After M*A*S*H

Camaraderie of Dong Guan in the “old days”.. . . 

Who's on First, China Style

Life at the Ramada/Guangzhou, Resting trucks, Dynamite, and other stuff

Is Dongguan becoming too civilized?

 Roadside Word Games, China Style

Thoughts on American Thanksgiving

The Traffic Food Chain

Hong Kong Sleigh Ride

Those Nuisance Messages

Will the Grinch Steal Christmas?

New Year's Recap

You're Probably in China If..

Chain Reactions for Most Situations

Just When You Thought You've Seen it All

An early morning dash, Flatt and Scruggs, and Debussy’s Clare De Lune

The Lone Gwailoh

Gravel voiced electronic girls, fast food, and toll ways

Airport Aerobics, I can’t find my phone, where’s my teeth?

Oriental Machoism, Mobile Phones, and “mine is smaller than yours?

The word game, or are all computers lousy at spelling?

Chilling suspicions about thermostats in S.E. Asia.

Over Easy, Poached, Well Done.

The Last Great Act of Defiance

Thermogate

Maybe it’s Not the Computers

The effects of technology, and changes in the local expat life style

The Twilight Zone China Style, or Life in the Past Lane

Yes, we got no bananas, China style, and Wingnuts

If the Chinese could discover North America, why do they get lost in Houjie ?

Eau de Six Twelve and “Flying Umbrella Zombies”

Signs and Runnin’ (not singin’) in the rain,

All sorts of anniversaries, past, present, and future

“Tuttie” and “Muldune” where are you now, or where the heck is Flt . 3504 ?

Taxi tales and other stuff

Two Moons

Nothing is as Constant as Change

The Da Vinci Code, Dong Guan style, or Sam Spade where are you.

The news media, a hole to China, and Clark Kent where are you

A contemporary look at the American Thanksgiving Holiday

“Charlie’s” Scraps

Hong Kong Sleigh Ride, 2006

The Christmas Icon that escaped the Grinch's clutches

Well, 2006’s about to be written into history

Jobs that I’m glad someone else has