1 min read 0 Summer’s Over John September 29, 2011 The dog days of summer are finally over. I can finally wear a jacket. […]
3 min read 0 Chinese Carousel of Progress John July 19, 2011 The Australian broadcasters SBS released a report of the purported Chinese real estate bubble. Throughout […]
1 min read 0 New site: Homebrew Shanghai John June 29, 2011 So, I started a new website: homebrewshanghai.com. Modeled after Rob Titley’s Homebrew Korea, I plan […]
1 min read 2 Marriage Market in People’s Park John June 27, 2011 So here’s a cultural oddity: Every weekend in People’s Park hundreds of families come together […]
3 min read 1 Ordering Beef and Getting Pork John June 22, 2011 So if there’s one GIANT systemic problem preventing China from becoming a fully industrialized first-world […]
1 min read 0 Ulysses S. Grant Wine — in China John June 21, 2011 It appears Barack Obama isn’t the only president having his image misappropriated by businesses in China. […]
1 min read 2 Z-Visa Photo Spree John May 24, 2011 So in the process of getting my work visa, I stopped at a subway photo […]
2 min read 1 Osama bin Laden Bootleg DVD John May 11, 2011 Even in China the death of Osama bin Laden is big news. Newspapers had his […]