inventing gunpowder to make fireworks.
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comment for the NY Times
The following is feedback I gave to a NY Times survey. It's my opinion. I teach in China. The NY Times and other foreign media sometimes grossly...
China is…
secretly, privately, quietly deploring its reputation as "a mystery."
protest – rickymay style
The new tension between the US and China is not really new, but in my opinion, it's not necessary. China and the US have, at best, a bittersweet...
China is…
converting Tiananmen Square into a parking lot with Chinese characteristics.
making cookies
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. My father would rightly say something so simple about the current bunk about the dead British drug trafficker...
the wind has made this old tree stronger
The students in one of my classes indirectly criticized me deeply and disheartened me in a way I've never been before in China. It wasn't only a...
beijing
I've missed Beijing. Back in the capital and happy to be here.
freak of the week, forever and ever
Sitting here at 4 am in my top floor digs, wondering how I can say what I want to say in a friendly, harmonious way. As an American, it's difficult...
the silent majority
women's rights are human rights. why is the world not seeing more support and cohesion among this gender? does it always have to be in coffee...