The neon madness of Tokyo, Seoul and Hong Kong, where I’d spend much of the last decade, were miles and miles behind. Geographically, I was closer to home than I’d been in years. Culturally I was so far away…
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China
This weekend, things seem pretty quiet in the Land of The Morning Calm. I wish I was there, I honestly do, so I could risk my life along with so many other people I know who live there now, but is not to be. I have to look from afar and just worry at their [...]
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Last week, I did what many of us teachers in South Korea do in the vacation and took a trip to Thailand to break-up the long cold of Korean winter. I won’t bore everyone with the details of my holiday but one thing struck me right away upon touching down in Bangkok and that was the [...]
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Today I did something I’m not proud of. Rewind back to this morning. I’m one of the few bloggers on this planet that has no internet connection at home. The (Chinese) firm I work for provided me with a really nice apartment for a very convenient price, but for three months, the internet connection has [...]
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One of the biggest questions regarding North Korea is what China would do should there be a “crisis” in the Hermit Kingdom. Would China just sit back and let the South Koreans and Americans take care of the situation, or would they invade North Korea to prevent “Dynamic Korea” from getting too close to their [...]
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“You’re white. You’re English. You can afford it,” she blurted out in frustration at our refusal to fork over the green. We’d seen these same gaudy paintings a few days before. Dragons, tigers, bamboo shoots, old men with droopy white beards and other clichéd depictions of China dangled before us. The petite, professionally dressed and [...]
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I hustled off the train in Guilin, a full 13 hours after boarding. Peeking out of my soft sleeper cabin’s window a few hours previously, the moon shone a mysterious communist red. I wasn’t quite sure what to make of that omen. The apprehension for my first solo trip in China, along with the motion [...]
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I don’t honestly believe there is a coup afoot in China, but over at Business Insider they do have an interesting post regarding rumors that the government of China is actively trying to squash. A few days ago we reported on how word of a Chinese coup attempt had soured the markets, following a report from the [...]
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Now, I’ve seen it all. According to the folks over at Shanghaiist, a group of “high end” grave robbers have been using the cover of kimchi vendors to get some ancient booty. Police have apprehended a network of thieves, who under the guise of kimchi vendors, attempted to raid an Eastern Zhou Dynasty Tomb in Hubei province’s [...]
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The North Korean government’s official propaganda arm has reportedly joined the Chinese social media website, Sina Weibo. According to the Shanghaist, which refers to Weibo as a Twitter clone, On March 7, a pro-DPRK account by the name of “Today Korea” (今日朝鲜) created a huge splash on Weibo with the first tweet saying, “@TodayKorea officially [...]
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