Back in October I picked up a couple of wooden model kits in a mall near the Drum Tower in Beijing. Yesterday my daughter and I finished the first one, an Imperial Chinese dragon (count the toes), brought to...
Posted on August 25, 2008 8:20 AM • 7 Comments •
Once in the early 90s two Stockholm girls went to college to major in Chinese. They became friends: one was half-Chinese, the other had spent part of her childhood in China. They would one day become the Architect and...
Posted on July 27, 2008 10:57 AM • 4 Comments •
Looking closer at this cover of a Chinese pirate edition of Disney's 1937 animated feature Snow White, we find a couple of fine Engrish phrases. "Latinum Edition" is pretty good. But wouldn't you agree that "Still the Fairest of...
Posted on June 21, 2008 12:45 PM • 8 Comments •
A reader has pointed out that a propaganda website friendly with the Chinese government and hostile to Falun Gong is quoting a recent blog entry of mine. She suggests that this means that I am aiding the government in its...
Posted on March 22, 2008 4:06 AM • 5 Comments •
The Chinese authorities and Falun Gong: a nasty autocratic regime persecuting a nasty manipulative cult.
Posted on March 7, 2008 8:20 AM • 5 Comments •
Back in October when myself & the family were in Beijing, we spent a Friday at the city's main amusement park. The place was almost deserted, so the kids didn't have to stand in line at all. They would...
Posted on February 10, 2008 8:20 AM • 3 Comments •
Proto-history offers a powerful lure to all students of the past.
Posted on January 7, 2008 8:50 AM • 16 Comments •
Came to Luoyang in Henan province on the Yellow River by train yesterday morning.
Posted on October 31, 2007 4:01 AM • 5 Comments •
Ostentatious 19th century Qing architecture is rather amply preserved around the city centre.
Posted on October 26, 2007 3:05 AM • 3 Comments •