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Covering China for 29 Years
Newsweek has a double issue out all about China in 2008. Most fascinating of the bunch is definitely Melinda Liu’s piece about covering China on and off since 1979. She cloaks it as the story of her brother who was born and raised in China (she is from the US), but it is really more [...]
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Change of Plan
Cup of Cha will continue during my vacation under new management. My friend Leslie who is living in Angola always talks about how many Chinese are down there working. So I’ve turned the reigns over to her for the next few weeks. It should be interesting to hear what is going on over in [...]
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Cup of Cha, Taking a Vacation
Just wanted to let everyone know I won’t be posting for two weeks. I’ll be off without a computer or worry.
Enjoy the holidays. And all your Iowans out there: vote early, vote often.
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Should Cup of Cha Ban nanheyangrouchuan?
I’m sure he’s a perfectly charming guy, and I know that most people let him post and say what he will. He gets lots of reactions, but he rarely adds any value to the conversation. I propose banning him, not because I believe in censorship, but because I believe in trying to promote a higher [...]
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The Ends of Beijing
The Beijing subway map has always been interesting to me. Line one reaches tantalizingly far west, while line eight [correction: batong xian], the extension of line one, goes right off the map into an unknown, unexplained land. It’s almost as if the city is saying, “Don’t worry, no one important lives out there. If you [...]
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Best Halloween Costume
This also wins the “Too Much Information Award”. I went to college with this guy, which makes strongly question my choice of higher learning institute.
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It’s a Blog!!
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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Cup of Cha, Coming Soon
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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