This is the internship that never ends. I’m polishing company profiles on the Top 500 Enterprises in 2008 for China.org. A few observations: The largest companies are state-owned. Of the 200 or so company profiles I’ve gone through, about 3 (rough estimate) were labeled private. Another 190 (again, rough estimate) were “large-scale” or “mega-sized.” Some […]
I wasn’t planning on writing anything for work about my mini-holidays, but I had such an adventure in Datong that I thought it’d be a pity to leave it all out. It turned out to be a little info guide for would-be visitors to Hengshan and the Hanging Monastery.
OK, well, against my advice and wishes, work decided to put up my remaining hamburger stories without Chris’s video accompaniments. Chris and I were not able to visit as many burger joints as we had hoped (trouble setting up interviews, etc.), but in the end, it may have been for the better. I mean, how […]
Well, I’ve been back in the States for a week now. China seems like it never happened. Here are some funny expressions Chinese people use: “Remember me to ____.” This is the equivalent of “Say ‘hi’ to ____ for me.” “Just a (little) so-so.” “En” This means uh-huh. It’s actually a Chinese word, ?. “A […]
1223 Beijing time Beijing Capital International Airport — Less than an hour until my flight. I think I might even be boarding soon! But I’m in a small cafe in the corner of the gate, which is tucked in the basement below all of the other terminals. My return to the U.S. has not begun […]
Save for some toiletries, my bags are all packed. The apartment is tidied. I have to say goodbye to everyone at the office tomorrow morning and change my yuan into dollars, then it’s off to Beijing Capital. Some friends took me out to dinner at a delicious Xinjiang restaurant, and then we went to our […]
I’m enjoying the Beijing night one last time from my balcony. I haven’t sat out here in forever, it seems, which makes me realize how long I’ve been here — long enough to undergo changes in behavior. Sitting on the balcony at night right before I went to bed was one of my favorite things […]
After coming back from our big adventure to the Hanging Monastery, we rested for a bit at our hotel. We decided we weren’t very hungry but should eat anyway around 8 p.m., so we went to the hotel next door. It had a pretty nice restaurant (we had eaten there the night before). We ordered […]
The last intern left today, so now it’s just me. Just tying all the loose ends… I finished my last article today and turned it in, so I can finally say that this internship is over. I organized all of my work files on my computer and cleaned out the random accumulation of junk on […]
According to American media ethics, good journalists will never accept gifts, money or other sorts of compensation for their work in an attempt to remain unbiased. Thus, I thought it was really qiguai (weird) when my roommate was given 100 yuan for covering a story on kids of government officials. Then a few weeks later, […]