The Ethicist on Chinatown
Saturday, February 13th, 2010 Posted in Chinese Culture | Comments OffI want to repost this from the most recent Ethicist column in the New York Times (it's the last of 3 letters) because it's a funny little bit about Chinese-American culture and it made me giggle. A market illegally displays fish ...
Leaving Shimen, Beijing via Xi’an
Friday, February 12th, 2010 Posted in Chinese Culture, Living in China, Travel | 2 Comments »I had fully intended to write long posts about everything that's been going on, but it really has been the most hectic crazy time of my life. I'm going to try and give you the shortest version possible. I left ...
Crazy Beijing
Monday, February 8th, 2010 Posted in Chinese Culture, Living in China, Travel | Comments OffTrust me when I say things have been too crazy for me to update. My family is here safely and we are enjoying ourselves, despite some random craziness. But I don't have time to talk about it now! ...
The decision I have made
Monday, February 1st, 2010 Posted in Chinese Culture, Homesickness, Living in China, Teaching in China, Travel | 1 Comment »The decision I have made has been well-deliberated. The decision I have made has been debated and argued and thought about and meditated on and processed in all ways possible. The decision I have made is to come ...
Brief injection of Confucius-related humor
Saturday, January 16th, 2010 Posted in Chinese Culture | 1 Comment »I thought this comic was pretty funny. Maybe you will too. The link will only be good for a few days to a week (because comics.com doesn't keep long archives), but if you can, go check it out. Confucius ...
Google and censorship are not friends
Thursday, January 14th, 2010 Posted in Chinese Culture, Living in China, Tech/Site Issues, Travel | 1 Comment »It looks like Google might be packing up and moving on, having decided that it can't work within the framework of China's Golden Shield project (otherwise, and more famously, known as the Great Firewall of China, or the GFW). ...
Well I’ll be damned
Sunday, December 27th, 2009 Posted in Chinese Culture, Living in China, Teaching in China, Travel | 3 Comments »My knitting was delivered to me (for Y20) today by a man I'd never met. Ellie, a member of the hostel staff, came with me and helped me pick it up so I could find the guy alright. ...
Further adventures in Yangshuo
Friday, December 25th, 2009 Posted in Chinese Culture, Living in China, Travel | 3 Comments »And adventures they were! Wednesday, I planned to ride my bike to Moon Hill, about 8km outside of Yangshuo. By lunch, I hadn't left yet, so I ate lunch at the Buckland cafeteria with a bunch of teachers and students. ...
Yangshuo: The Return of the Laowai
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 Posted in Chinese Culture, Living in China, Travel | Comments OffI thought "The PRC Strikes Back" was too negative a title, so I skipped straight to the third one. Things I love about Yangshuo: My Corona is served with a lime. Hearing, "Oh, you son of a bitch," in its natural habitat: a ...
Learning activity: picture analysis
Friday, November 20th, 2009 Posted in Chinese Culture, Living in China | 2 Comments »Observe the photo of my fridge below carefully. Analyze it for clues that tell you Shimen is famous for its oranges.