This week my girlfriend and I had to settle a disagreement by comparing Wikipedia's climate information about Xiamen and Chengdu. I thou...

Chinese immigrants first came to the U.S. in significant numbers more than a century and a half ago—mainly as low-skilled male laborers wh...

"I'd not even make cidah with these manure-laden Apples."                                                    -disgruntled N...

250 million people moving to the city Yesterday, I took my bicycle--that ancient vestige of Chinese civilization--and pedaled far out Re...

Today, I just want to share a picture of a durian that my lovely girlfriend took. It was 58 yuan for this one--not a cheap price for a singl...

I grew up in a household where my mother always coached us that we should begin reading any menu from the bottom up, because that way you co...

First, I read Soul Mountain . Then, I read The Good Earth . Now, I am in the midst of Red Sorghum . The first is by Gao Xingjian (b. 1940). ...