During my bike ride to work down the Second Ring Road yesterday, I noticed tiny little bugs–gnats or something–gathering on my shirt. As I looked at them and wondered if one of them would end up getting smeared across my work clothes, I realized that this was meant that Beijing spring had officially arrived. This [...]
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This morning marked my first Olympic event event ever, beach volleyball. Other than a a bit of rain, which China seems to think is a huge embarrassment (but none of the people in attendance seemed to believe), things went extremely well. We took a cab to Chaoyang Park East Gate #4, and were dropped off [...]
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Let me be clear. For those of us in Beijing, the Olympics will be a lot of fun. I suspect the best way to enjoy them will be getting one set of plastic pre-school sized table and chairs that restaurants in this blessed country love, get some friends together, grab some beer and maodou , [...]
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Any foreigner living in China now will tell you that something weird is going on. Our fellow foreigners are disappearing in great numbers. It as if wild animals are picking them off on their smoggy bike rides to work. Increasingly we feel like Mexicans just inside the American border: looked upon suspicuously, regardless of the [...]
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