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As Russia moves into Ukraine, it seems that Ai Weiwei's description of the Japanese invasion of China in 1937 seems an appropriate readi...

 There's a great display of rhododendrons right now at the garden .  The early ones have big seed pods.  It's just past the fire st...

 I posted this five years ago.  Since then, the most iconic 'photo' was actually the video of George Floyd,  And probably some photo...

[UPDATE:  Here's a link to a great site about birding and other wildlife in Beijing and beyond:   https://birdingbeijing.com .] When I t...

 This LA Times article offers a Cliff Notes review of President Xi Jinping and China's role in the world.  Since Trump has sucked all th...

Some Chinese Americans I know passed this article on to me.  They were angry about anti-black racism by fellow Chinese in the US - particula...

(THREAD) This thread summarizes the major-media investigative reporting on the TRUMP-CHINA SCANDAL, a bribery scandal involving Trump'...

A close Chinese-American friend showed me this document recently.  He explained it was the 'confession' letter of Li Wenjiang, the d...

Serendipity  plays a big role  intros  blog.  I got an email from someone who claims to be an English teacher praising an old post of mine ...

I'd been to Hong Kong various times for short visits, but in July 1989 I arrived for a year long stay. As a Fulbright Scholar, I would b...

Tiananmen May 1990 June 4, 1989 is just called by the date in Chinese.  Like 9/11.  It's 六四  liù sì.  It's the date the Chinese ...

Twelve animals represent the astrological signs in the Chinese Zodiac.   And the Chinese New Year is one of the most important holiday for C...

We just got back from a strange documentary film about Siberian native men who go searching for ancient  mammoth tusks in islands in the a...

I mentioned Michael Meyer's book The Road To Sleeping Dragon in the last post. Meyer went to  a rural Sichuan province as a Peace Cor...