Race in China is a touchy subject. As a very ethnically-homogeneous country, Chinese people don’t really much think about race and how they and their fellow countryfolk deal with it…. [Continue Reading]
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What happens when you mix greasy McDonald’s food with the smog spewing factories in the growing economy of contemporary China? You get the Modern China Burger, of course. This item… [Continue Reading]
I walked into my school one day and was “voluntold” (a word we foreign English teachers around here use when we’re forced to do something for our school) that we… [Continue Reading]
I’m not into opening up a paper in the morning and reading my horoscope. I just don’t believe in that stuff. But, if you make me shake a metal box… [Continue Reading]
I was at a Hong Kong currency exchange station counting my coins when suddenly it jumped out at me. A 10 cent Hong Kong coin with a profile of Queen… [Continue Reading]
“How did the chicken cross the road?” “HOW?” “It didn’t. It died because the road was in China.” All jokes aside, this is not a post where I rant… [Continue Reading]
When I decided to leave the country and live abroad for the second time around, I had it in my head that I would be gone for much longer than… [Continue Reading]