Over the last few weeks, I have had a wonderful time talking to Chinese friends about the differences in onomatopoeia (拟声) between English...

The librarian from my law school and another friend teamed up to send me a copy of Barbara Tuchman's Practicing History for Christmas. ...

One of the more fascinating discoveries I have made in the last few weeks is that when it comes to war deaths, internecine conflicts in Chin...

This is me this afternoon at one of my favorite restaurants in Changchun, which serves food from ethnically Chinese Muslims, or Hui zu . We ...

Everything Important is Countable in China Seven Sages The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove were a group of Chinese Taoist Qingtan schola...

In my life, I have been extraordinarily lucky. Between twenty and thirty years ago, I was in a car accident with my maternal grandmother whe...

Today is the end of the world, according to the Mayan calendar, or, at least, the end of the era of the Corn People， according to 2012: A ...