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Xi’an-China: An overrated tourist destination 28 Feb 2013 | 12:32 am
Xi’an is pouring rain. It has been raining here since the moment we landed, and is still downpouring. We hate Xi’an. It’s the first time on our trip that we really have wanted to go home or anywhere e...
Why don't Chinese stand in line? 21 Feb 2013 | 02:06 pm
When I was a student, my Chinese teacher used to tell our class sad stories about having to wait in line for hours at a time with a voucher coupon to obtain the same drab clothing that everyone else w...
Xi'ans Air Quality Index (AQI) 20 Feb 2013 | 01:58 pm
An air quality index (AQI) is a number used by government agencies to communicate to the public how polluted the air is currently or how polluted it is forecast to become. As the AQI increases, an inc...
Mandarin - Dialects - Accents 16 Feb 2013 | 03:27 pm
Everywhere I go, I feel like an outsider -- I don't know that place, and I don't speak their language. Yeah, language , it's a big reason to make me feel that I don't belong to that place. People in ...
Who do you like to work with? 6 Feb 2013 | 02:16 am
Probably who you identify most easily with. A year or so ago my then 5 year-old told me, in all seriousness, “Dad I’m like Kobe, not white like you.” Suppressing laughter I responded, “Actually, you’...
The ugly side of cynicism 1 Feb 2013 | 10:50 pm
A while back, a friend of mine had his bag stolen. A bit later he received a phone call from someone that said he found the bag. They made a plan to meet that evening to hand over the bag. The strange...
Approved in China. 28 Jan 2013 | 04:33 pm
Everything we design and make in China has to be approved by some govt 'Quality Bureau'. What we make we pretty much try to keep away from the prying eyes of the competition, as we're good at it and t...
Kidnapped for speaking out 25 Jan 2013 | 05:49 pm
A reporter with the German TV station Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) was interviewing a young man in China about the newspaper censorship controversy, when, immediately after the interview, a team ...
Why I came to China? 25 Jan 2013 | 04:34 pm
I am often asked by people to give them my reasons for coming to live and work in China. I never fail to hesitate and give them some lame answer to their question. I usually end up telling them them I...
China - Between Past and Future 24 Jan 2013 | 10:07 pm
China is a country endowed with a colorful history. Owning deeply engrained traditions that few of it's population stray from it is a country that is hard to decipher for the outsider. Often what is v...
