When the phone rang at 9 am, I had no clue of the series of events that would follow. I heard a recorded message: "You have a summons issued by the Huzhou City Intermediary People's Court relayed by the Shanghai Municipal Intermediary People's Court.
Getting a haircut can be a nerve-wracking experience, as you're left wondering whether your wishes are going to be interpreted correctly by the stylist.
After spending more than three years in China doing everything I can to avoid karaoke, I realize it's time to face the music.
presidential visit is always taken so seriously in China that nothing is left to chance. But nobody could have scripted the most memorable moment of United States President Barack Obama's visit early this week.
As I watched this year's National Day parade on TV, scenes of the parade I joined 10 years ago flashed through my mind. I was in junior middle school - one the closest to Zhongnanhai.
To dye or not to dye is a dilemma many people with gray hair face, particularly those who don't believe they are quite at a graying age.
Every morning at 6:30, a man passes by our place, yelling something like, "Paperbackwriterrrrryahhh". The ritual is repeated three times throughout the day.
Hu Huakai bolted out of a blue Ford sedan, wearing nothing but a white loincloth. He ran through a throng of students for about 50m and removed the cloth before dashing back, said "thank you" to the crowd and disappeared into the waiting car.
I realized then that what we considered to be "Chineseness" now must have been different from that of our forefathers. So any romantic concept of deep-rooted Chinese Chinese-ness appears to be a myth.
While life in Beijing has turned out to be better than I dared hope before I got here six months ago, one little issue that has been with me since day one still niggles - my incomprehensible inability to get to grips with the money.
Shanghai is cracking down on its most tenacious fashion trend. In preparation for the 2010 World Expo, the municipal government has launched a campaign to eradicate running red lights and wearing pajamas in public.
When I first moved to Beijing almost a year ago, I was greeted with several new experiences and sights that I was unaccustomed to living in Vancouver, Canada - jam-packed streets with motorized tricycles and rickshaws, street vendors selling sweet potatoes and the omnipresent squat toilet.
On my birthday a bunch of 99 roses was delivered to my door by the express man.
Now that Tiger Woods has admitted to “transgressions,” many wonder what is next for his marriage.
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