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Introduction
Welcome to XSG! (eXpat Stories from the World). This site contains wild, funny, bizarre, shocking, and hopefully entertaining stories about life in China from the Expat point of view. In the future we hope to include stories from the rest of Asia, as well as the world. If you are an Expat and have something to contribute, please refer to the “submissions” link. Enjoy the stories! Your host, China Mike
Submissions
If you think you have a story worth telling, please go to the submissions guidline page. We need contributers!
Feature Story
This month’s feature story, The Melon Man was provided by Chris Goddard, a wily Brit currently living in London with his beautiful wife Wei Wei. Do you think those melons were bugged? Hmmm…
The Melon Man
I yanked open the flimsy wooden door that led out to my balcony, hoping that they had disappeared. But, of course, they hadn’t. From the corner of the balcony, the six of them stared back at me as if to say ‘So what are you going to do with us, big nose?’ I had absolutely no idea. No-one had faced this problem before. I was stuffed…READ MORE
Last Month’s Feature
A true account of one American who was robbed and later arrested and sent to prison in mainland China. Remember that scene in “Batman Begins” where Bruce Wayne starts a fight with the big Mongolian in the mountain prison? Well, that was fiction; this story is real…
ATM Asian Mayhem
The gate of thick steel bars clanged shut behind me, followed by a second solid metal door behind it. The collective sound they made reverberated throughout the cavernous prison I had just been led through. I was the only person who had been processed that time of night and it appeared that everyone was sleeping, meaning–my arrival most likely awakened everyone within earshot. I realized only then that I had stopped breathing a moment before. I exhaled my last breath of freedom into my unwelcoming new home; a Chinese prison…READ MORE
