Hanging in Hangzhou
A friend and I are leaving soon to spend the weekend in Hangzhou, a city near Shanghai. I first learned about the wonders of the...
World’s Most Spoiled Dog
I live in a fairly upscale apartment complex in Beijing. A lot of people who live here have a lot of money, and the flaunt...
Down to the Marrow
This one falls into the category of "just when you think you've seen (or heard) it all, and there's nothing left here to shock me." ...
Singing in the Hutong
This afternoon some friends took me to a newly opened Christian gift shop in a hutong near Xi Si. As we were inside looking at...
A Chinese Phelps
From The Foreign Expert website comes this translation of a very funny post floating around on the Chinese internet. It's called "If Phelps were a...