Our compound is considered a “foreigner’s compound” – important because the more foreigners live here, the more foreign TV channels we are allowed to get. Yes, it sounds like a stupid rule and it is. So, as they don’t identify enough laowai, we get just HBO, CNN, TV5 and a Japanese channel.
The management is very typical “Chinese”. In other words, very poor to mediocre. As an owner you have few rights and none to complain.
With all those laowais around you could imagine they easily find help to check their English announcements. Of course, silly you. They never ask the right people who probably would be happy to help. It is typical of the majority of Chinese organizations and explains the abundance of Chinglish signs, some meaningless, some the source of jokes.
Julong Garden, in its quest to keep up with Chinese management characteristics, has again scored highly with this latest panel. The security guards don’t understand the enthusiasm of the inhabitants of taking a picture of the announcement. Rome was not build in a day, neither was Bingjing.