Chinese Idioms of the Day: 画饼充饥 , 临渴掘井
Huàbǐngchōngjī: “allaying hunger with pictures of cakes.” Please discuss with reference...
Apr 30th
'Free Tibet' Flags Made in China
Apr 28th
It's not easy being "grue"?
Apr 27th
Karl Rove: Dear Senator Obama...
Apr 27th
Bowling 1, Health Care 0
Elizabeth Edwards strikes a nerve with this op-ed in today’s Times. The more I see of Obama...
Apr 26th
Fènqīng
Apr 25th
“Did you attend the Summer of Love?”
— A Chinese teacher in my...
— A Chinese teacher in my...
Apr 25th
Watch
哎呀!!! China is now bringing one of its deadliest weapons to bear on the perfidious Western media (in...
Apr 20th
The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks
Apr 19th
Рок-н-ролл мёртв, а я ещё нет
Lots of new music lately. Too much, really. Let’s bring 5-second Reviews back to ultra-basics: ...
Apr 18th
南辕北辙 (Nányuánběizhé)
Forget spring, it’s summer already in Beijing. We’ve gone directly from far too cold to...
Apr 17th
Carrying a Torch for China
Apr 14th
How do you like your Wikipedia?
[Googling shows that...
Apr 12th
Area Man Makes It Through Day
Apr 12th
“The experience of alterity can be both frightening and...”
— Paul B. Armstrong, Reading,...
— Paul B. Armstrong, Reading,...
Apr 10th
One Size Fits All
Here’s CCTV 9 maundering on again about the Dalai Lama, the “monster with a human face,” the “wolf...
Apr 10th
Baku 2016
Apr 10th
Prayer wheels, Chéngdé
Apr 8th
美国好
Holiday weekend (“Tomb-Cleaning Day) and I decided it was high time to get out the hell of Dodge....
Apr 8th
Pickle Sickle
Apr 2nd