Baby, it’s cold outside. I’m parading around Beijing in negative temperatures. It hasn’t been above freezing (or anywhere near) in days. The lakes and canals are all frozen. Although, weather.com says it will be getting a little warmer over the next week. Signs of Christmas are scattered throughout the city. I’ve seen stickers on random […]
Today is Dec. 4, three months after I accepted a job offer in China. I am still in the United States. The Chinese embassy has approved my visa (Z class, sometimes known as a Foreign Expert visa — thanks, China, for recognizing my brilliance!). I am cleared to go back to Beijing to work, and […]
Nothing like a good op-ed piece and a national birthday to reawaken my pro-China inclinations. The Grand Parade was certainly magnificent (you can always count on China to put on an over-the-top spectacle), but still super dry and hella boring. The only highlights were: When, during the flag-raising ceremony, the soldier threw the flag into […]
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Ah, the Internet. I love it. It just makes things so easy. You can take up serious and worthy causes without making them serious or worthwhile, just to get some lulz. I’m going to need some lulz to make it through a whole year on the Chinese Internet. This quick intro guide provides great tips […]
Based on my fabulous reporting and editing work during my internship (I assume), China.org.cn offered me a job to work there full-time. I came back to the States to think about it and decided I should take this excellent opportunity to live in China and explore my beloved motherland more. What I make of it […]
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 […]