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Category Archives: blog
I’ve been busy
I know my updates have been quite infrequent over the last six months or so, but I have valid excuses! The most time-consuming venture for me in the last month has been the development of Shanghai Beer Week‘s website. Mike, … Continue reading
Posted in beer/brewing, blog, china
Tagged beer, beer week, design, shanghai beer week, shbw
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CIA’s Map of Shanghai — in 1982
Recently I was looking for some map files of Shanghai for a cartography project when I came across some now-public early 1980′s CIA maps of Asia. The most interesting map I found was a very large 1:30,000 street map of the … Continue reading
My Articles in Hops Magazine
In 2011 I had the opportunity to write two articles for the fall issue of Hops Magazine, an English-language quarterly serving mainly the residents of Shanghai and Beijing. Hops describes itself as “the only magazine in China dedicated exclusively to beer … Continue reading
Posted in beer/brewing, blog, china
Tagged beer battered food, shanghai, shrimp tacos, the blarney stone
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Ken Jennings’ “Maphead”
It’s been a little while since I’ve written anything on this blog. However, I feel compelled to write something geography related after finishing Ken Jennings’ new book “Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks.” Yes, it’s that Ken … Continue reading
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Tagged book, essay, geography, ken jennings, maphead, maps
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Chinese Carousel of Progress
The Australian broadcasters SBS released a report of the purported Chinese real estate bubble. Throughout several parts of China, ghost towns and malls are cropping up. They aren’t like American ghost towns, but rather a government-backed attempt at rapid development … Continue reading
Posted in blog, china, geography
Tagged ccp, china, construction, development, economy, gentrification, heritage architecture, oct suhe creek, progress, shanghai, shukimen, tianzifang, xintiandi
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New site: Homebrew Shanghai
So, I started a new website: homebrewshanghai.com. Modeled after Rob Titley’s Homebrew Korea, I plan to create the same sort of community that helped me out during the trial-and-error periods of my own homebrewing in Korea. So far the … Continue reading
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Marriage Market in People’s Park
So here’s a cultural oddity: Every weekend in People’s Park hundreds of families come together and create a real-world dating site. Traditionally, from what I’ve read, it’s a parent’s job to find a suitable spouse for a child. And with the … Continue reading
