Thanks to Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and Wong Kar-Wai, Chinese cinema has grown increasingly popular over the last decade. The irony of course is that any mainland movie
Chinese inventors have historically been given the shaft. People like Guttenburg and Aristotle are given credit for inventions that originated in China centuries earlier. Of course, in the
In honor of Spring Festival, every list this week celebrates Chinese culture. We’ve already done Tigers and Oscar Wilde, and today we look at the best of China’s
This afternoon, I meandered through Kunming’s Bird and Flower market, taking photos. I avoided taking too many photos of the animals themselves, or the people working there, because
I came across this construction site one of my first days in Kunming. I think there may actually be more construction in Kunming than there is in Beijing.
There is inherent irony in starting a blog documenting how to live an environmentally sensitive life in the city of Kunming when said blog is blocked in China.
There are two surefire signs that Autumn has officially arrived in Beijing. First of all, you have the two week stretch of November that is invariably the coldest
Christmas and the surreal go hand in hand when living in Beijing. Yesterday I was greeted by the following scene in my office lobby: A Chinese Santa Claus,
