I recently stumbled across this short video of things you see people doing in a park in Beijing. Parks in Beijing (and any other cities in China) are where retirees go to hang out. They sing, dance, play cards, and, apparently smoke. A lot! Seeing all the smoking brought to mind a conversation I had with a tour bus […]
Taking in the Mountain Air
This is definitely my favorite story out of China this week — residents of Zhengzhou (my original China ‘home town’) lined up to take shots of O2 from bags filled with mountain air (from the Wall Street Journal): “Proving that China’s fight against pollution has moved decisively into the realm of parody, bags containing mountain […]
