Cup of Cha
This is China

Don’t read too much into the title. This is not about the overheating economy, but literally the heating systems in Chinese buildings. There are two designs, and neither works out all that well.
Winter in China is one of the weirder things you can experience. In the south, central heating is banned by law as a [...]

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One of the problems with living in China is that you begin to feel disconnected with the culture from your home country. You don’t get up on the latest trends, and it can be hard to follow the news carefully, or at least as closely as you would like to. Fortunately, television over the last [...]

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I hadn’t planned on writing much here until mid-November, but since the blog is 80% done and my friend Graham told me “the site would look a lot better if you wrote something” I decided to take his good advice.
A little background for those of you who don’t know me: I started out as the [...]

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This is the new home of Josh’s blog. He began blogging for China Expat where he founded and wrote Daily Tea Leaves. Cup of Cha will launch in mid-November

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