Lacing up the shoes Caught boy on his phone! Hope his boss doesn’t find out… The shoes get heated up so that they can be molded to foot-shape The shoes…
I took this picture from the inside of a tour bus on Zhong Shan Lu (中山路) in Quanzhou (泉州）on February 8, 2012. It was rush hour in downtown, and I…
This opinion is purely based on my own stint in Guangzhou; I did no background research to write it; it is merely an impression — albeit, a very good one.…
It started with a subway brawl in Hong Kong. Despite signs and announcements prohibiting the consumption of food on the subway, a Chinese mainlander was enjoying a bowl of instant…
See the debate: 海归女 PK名主持 Twenty-four-year-old Liu Lili recently appeared on a Chinese job-hunting TV show. She was halfway through saying, “I was in New Zealand for three years. After those…
There have been a handful of times in my life in which immediate death seemed all but confirmed. The worst instance was my last plane flight home – the nine-hour…
In a fit of bitterness over my botched Chinese-classics education, being that my teacher of Confucianism and Modern Society chose to play movies all semester rather than teach, I decided…
This is a response to Jonathan Levine’s article on working in China, “Go East, Young Man”, published on January 8. After writing this response, I found that someone had written…
1. Marx identifies private property as the basis of peoples’ alienation from human nature. 2. China adopts Marxism as its ruling ideology. 3. China adopts partial capitalism under Deng. 4.…
For Americans: You have to pick between two scenarios. 1. America is no longer a world power, but the other countries are mostly democratic with stable legal systems that ensure…
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