It seems that every other blogger on the planet is doing an end-of-the-year “Top Ten” list, so why not me? Herewith, then, is the list of my top ten posts of 2012, as measured by WordPress stats: 10. Living Well Where You Don’t Belong (full version) A collection of lessons I’ve learned over the years […]
The Great Manchurian Christmas Scarf Incident
“Welcome to Qiqihar,” they said in one accord. “There’s been an outbreak of bubonic plague.” That ominous greeting notwithstanding, we were overjoyed to see our friends at the station in the middle of the night as we got off the train. We had spent the better part of 12 hours trundling across the Manchurian Plain, or […]
Chinese Bumper Stickers [4]
Here are a few more entries in my continuing series on Chinese bumper stickers. Enjoy. These two were spotted in a church parking lot in Beijing: Related Posts: Chinese Bumper Stickers Chinese Bumper Stickers [2] Chinese Bumper Stickers [3]
Is it a Castle? A Church? A Public Toilet?
If you can’t imagine being able to tell the difference between a building that is a castle, a building that is a church, or a building that is a public toilet, than you obviously haven’t been to China! The Shanghaiist reports on a recently-built public toilet facility in Wuhan that looks like a castle: Wuhan […]
Fun with Chinese Adverbs
You have probably never used the word ‘fun’ and ‘adverb’ in the same sentence, but that is most likely because you have not read hundreds and hundreds of pages of translated academic and political articles. I have recently been doing just that, doing the English editing of translated academic and political resources. What it really […]
