Links That Locals Use

Hey,

I see this as an appendix to the already excellent Link Page on this site.

So the idea for this thread is for the old China hands on this site to share the Chinese-language (or otherwise, it's all good  ) sites that they've found useful (or just fun), preferably something that all your Chinese mates know about, but that is less common among expats (most likely for language reasons).

(Raoul, if this thread takes off feel free to hack it up for parts)

I'll get the ball rolling with this Pop-up Chinese Dictionary, to help with reading Chinese-language pages. It's software that once downloaded will allow you to wave your cursor over Chinese text for instant translation.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9144/

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Here's a link I like that was posted earlier from MK for train times and schedules:

http://www.huoche.biz/

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An old favourite for finding good restaurants, rated by the people who know best

http://www.dianping.com/citylist

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Instant Chinese income tax calculator, in English (think this was originally posted by old34  )

http://chinajobline.com/index.php/tax-calculator.html

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http://www.qunar.com/


Travel search engine - flights + hotels

Free, legal, no DRM, single song, downloads - available only INSIDE China.

http://www.google.cn/music/homepage

Links that the locals use? 

http://www.qq.com/

http://www.renren.com/

All the time!!    Chinese equivalent of MSN and Facebook - good for finding girls!

PS - G oogle has signed a new deal with China - so all is good now.

Links that the locals use? 

http://www.qq.com/

http://www.renren.com/

All the time!!    Chinese equivalent of MSN and Facebook - good for finding girls!

Speaking of social networking, does anyone know how popular www.kaixin001.com is? Is it a "must-have" yet or secondary to renren and qq? I desperately want to land in China already cool.

Fozzwaldus:
Like the link you posted about the city guide. Good stuff there. Thanks.

Can't believe no one has mentioned Taobao yet! I'm a Taobao addict. 

http://www.taobao.com/

Can't believe no one has mentioned Taobao yet! I'm a Taobao addict. 

http://www.taobao.com/

And if you need help with figuring out Taobao, check out this English-language website:
http://taobaofieldguide.com/

Olds, that is a fantastic link! Thanks!

Thanks, have been wanting to use Taobao for a while!

Bumping this up because while it has been mentioned a few times in other threads, Amazon.cn   https://www.amazon.cn   is a great resource and deserves a spot here.

Last year Amazon.cn became linked to regular amazon.com, so that now pretty much all of the books you could buy on amazon.com are now available on amazon.cn. They are imported, so they take between 1-2 months to deliver, but the prices are generally better than your average English language bookstore, selection is much better (the only books you can't find are the banned ones and certain pre-orders) they deliver ALL over China, you can pay for the books using your Chinese debit card (provided you've got internet banking set up), and they often do promotions offering free delivery.

Beijing has some pretty good bookstores but I haven't even bothered with them since Amazon.cn started with the international books. This is a great resource for book starved expats!