Author: life-china

Sometimes things just fall apart. Hey. It happens. The last thing you want is a messy, painful bureaucratic nightmare that'll follow you around for months or years. In the interest of minimizing stress, we reached out to Flora Huang, head of the international family law team at Shanghai Kaimao LLP, a Shanghai-based legal firm that deals with, among other things, expat divorces for some pointers. Let's get cracking. [Mandatory disclaimer: This article is intended as a primer and a guide, not set legal advice. Can't stress this enough, if you show up at a Chinese court with this...

Couriers are the white blood cells of the city. They're actually more like cholesterol in that they seem to clog up the streets and they'll probably kill us all in the long run, but that's doing a disservice to how goddamn convenient they make life in the short-term. Mostly you know them from bringing you food, but they're willing to carry pretty much anything. We've covered one already. Here we're introducing a couple more apps that let you call a person who will transport just like, whatever, man! How To Courier Something in Shanghai First one we tried is...

Whether you cracked the screen or dropped it in the toilet, or the WiFi just suddenly doesn’t work or the fingerprint scanner's broken or you tried to drill a headphone jack in the top, broken tech is a fact of life. Normally, you'd have to go to a service center and hand it over to some total tech-savvy stranger. What if that tech-savvy stranger came to your house to fix it in front of you, instead? The Outcall Phone Repair Experience We busted our phone. At first it seemed all right, but a few days...