Children's bright hearts might light the road to redemption
2012-02-15 13:31:21
I'm filled with horror and righteous indignation. Why? I've just read The Flowers of War.
Why a passion for fashion amuses and bemuses me
2012-02-14 13:20:28
I'm thinking of starting a charity, one that will address an urgent and ever-worsening problem in China.
Attempts to avoid CNY minefield doomed to fail
2012-02-09 10:36:47
At home in the UK, I dread Nov 5. It's not the fact that the shops are already pumping out Bing Crosby with exhausting pre-Christmas zeal. It's the fireworks.
Home is where the heart is - and where the tracks lead
2012-02-08 11:22:32
At 12:37 pm, the elegant and futuristic-looking bullet train zips out of Jiaxing station.
Is it the zombie apocalypse or Chinese New Year?
2012-02-07 13:16:39
The chilled January wind swirled dust across our path as my Dutch friend and I walked down a side street just east of the Beijing Foreign Studies University.
A new class of Chinese students emerging in US
2012-02-02 16:49:31
University students from China studying in the United States don't look like they used to.
Gift of giving is one click away
2012-01-19 11:11:09
As the Chinese New Year draws near, I am getting anxious: What gifts should I take to my hometown of Jiaxing, Zhejiang province?
A trip worth more than I bargained for to Taiwan
2012-01-18 10:00:57
What I didn't know at that time was that mainlanders go to Taiwan with the purpose of buying, and visiting while buying, while my purpose was visiting first.
A cultural difference that pricks and drips through healthcare
2012-01-17 10:11:22
My first look into the Chinese medical system came six years ago, when my wife and I traveled to see family in her hometown in Changzhou, Jiangsu province.
My inner cave person speaks Chinese
2012-01-11 10:58:33
Back in the days when men were men and mammoths were wooly, language was a simple affair.
Time to accept I'm forever a foreigner in Zhengzhou
2012-01-05 10:31:47
It's strange how I can be aware of how far behind China's first-tier cities Henan's provincial capital Zhengzhou is, yet still remain desensitized to the fact.
An all-consuming word that turns people into economic units
2012-01-04 13:55:10
If there are two words in the English language that I find increasingly irritating, they are the words "consumer" and its plural.