Here’s a special entry for all you ladies of child bearing years living in China. (If that category doesn’t include you, please feel free to skip. I’ll be back to my chinglish/history type articles soon enough.) When I lived in
More Chinglish!!
I keep thinking I’ll run out of funny packages and signs at my university. But China seems to have an inexhaustible well as I keep finding plenty!
We Wuz Robbed
I’ll tell you the end of the story first. Our camera was stolen, from our apartment, and the thief got away. Unfortunately we only have the one camera and therefore I couldn’t take pictures of the hilarious night that ensued.
The Big Picture: China Edition
Over at Boston.com they have a feature called “The Big Picture” in which they showcase some dramatic/slice-of-life/unknown events through high quality photographs. This time they pointed their lens at China and I think there are some amazing pictures. All of
Sunday is the New Thursday
Foreign teachers usually have a hard time with the Chinese yearly school calendar, and not without good reason. The schedule here is crazy, complex and changes every year so that even the students and Chinese teachers have different stories. Take,
The Crazy First Emperor
Quick, name the two most famous tourist sites in China. Yep, you got it, the Great Wall and the Terracotta Warriors. Believe it or not the two were the mastermind of the same guy: the first emperor. If you’ve seen
China in the News (and not for depressing reasons)
The LA Times has recently had some great articles on China. Usually when people report on China it is political and government based things or environmental articles. But maybe in a testament to China’s growing power in the world, articles
Kicking Ass at the Shaolin Temple
I’ve never taken a kung fu class (or karate) and I’ve only seen one Bruce Lee flick yet I have always wanted to go to Shaolin Temple. I’ve read Matthew Polly’s book about training at Shaolin (twice) and even he
Kaifeng's Night Market
Kaifeng has some ancient buildings, historical pagoda’s and astounding sculptures but that the people really come for is the night market. Held in the middle of the city every night the night market is overflowing with skewers of meat, pounded
The Statue with a Thousand Hands and Eyes
In the middle of Kaifeng stands the Temple of the Chief Minister. And in the middle of that temple stands one of the most amazing statues I have ever seen. The Four-Faced Thousand Eyes Thousand Hand Statue of Guanyin. It