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.
Winter chills and warm hearts show a different theory of relativity
2011-12-28 09:32:16
Spring Festival will arrive as early as Jan 23 in 2012. I'm wondering where I will spend it.
Now I'm learning how to live life all over again, from speaking to renting
2011-12-22 15:22:59
Living in China, I feel that I've had to re-experience rights of passage I dealt with long ago in the US.
White lies about the man in red, and other things, color parenthood
2011-12-21 15:45:14
As Christmas flies round again, some Chinese friends have asked me how we can justify lying to our children about the man in red.