**Warning** This is a short post. James Fallows had a contest on his Atlantic blog yesterday, asking readers if they could figure out the meaning of this sign: It was taken in Ritan Park, the park I frequent. I had noticed it before, and as I found out from Fallows, was wrong about what it […]
I was recently told that I suck at writing on my blog. It’s true, I am guilty. I haven’t been so inspired to write anything recently, which may be a reflection of my growing disillusionment with Beijing and China. I’ve started many posts but after writing a few inane lines, I started boring even myself. […]
China’s census results have been released. Besides numbers that verify the slowing of China’s population growth and the migration of people to cities, as well as that there are lots of migrant workers, the most interesting and relevant bit of information (for me) was that there are 107,445 laowai in Beijing. And I’m one of […]
Spring has sprung and Beijing is now in summer mode. Luckily, boyfriend and I managed to picnic in the park on breezy, sunny day a couple of weekends ago, before I left for Yunnan on a mini-vacay and missed the remaining days of Beijing spring. Ritan (Sun Temple) Park is a 10-minute walk due north […]