With a new week comes a new ban: Four American TV shows are the first to be removed from Chinese video sites in the Communist Party’s latest effort to rein in online speech. While films and televisions have always been tightly controlled, the Internet was almost untouchable, and video sites such as Sohu and iQiyi […]
I hope you enjoyed my three-part story about the time I went to get a facial. I wrote it partly because I thought it was yet another silly China misadventure (still going on them even after living here for almost five years), and partly to reflect on this facet of China — a China that […]
The WSJ’s China Real Time blog has a fun article on Chinese words in the English lexicon (there are few compared to other languages, such as French, Italian and Yiddish), based on a Xinhua report about Chinese buzzwords that have made it onto the great linguistic archive … Urban Dictionary. Seriously, the Chinese state media […]
I haven’t been terribly creative since coming back to Beijing after the Chinese New Year holiday. My mind is overflowing with ideas, but it’s hard to have time and not feel lazy at the same time. As such, my culinary experiments haven’t been many. Still, here’s some stuff I have managed to make: Zha jiang […]
I signed up for a SPA package. It’s the mistake that keeps on tormenting me. Click to read Part I and Part II. Fast forward another four months. I’ve been going to my SPA for seven months now, through the winter and into the beginning of spring. Now, I usually try to go once a […]
I signed up for a SPA package. It’s the mistake that keeps on tormenting me. Read how I got myself into this mess here. When I went to get my free back massage, my SPA lady was nowhere to be found. Unfortunately, I couldn’t ask for her because I didn’t get her name when she […]