Here I sit looking out the window of the 22th flood of a massive upscale apartment complex in the Chaoyang district of Beijing contemplating things in the way you do when looking out a window. This view differs from the same view I saw early this month—when Yuhang’s gracious friend put us upon our arrival [...]

Yuhang and I have been flitting around on our Flitterwoche for the past three days like little dragonflies, though at the pace we decide, something we did not always have during our highly scheduled Daqing wedding prep days. Speaking of which, it was great success, it was agreed on every second toast of bai jiao [...]

I feel like I’ve been getting married all week, as this photo might suggest, though tomorrow is the event, the official wedding party, regarded in China as the once-in-a-lifetime occurance more important than the wedding itself (which technicall already happened in Sweden last year anyway). Family members and family friends are coming in from all [...]

They say the Chinese aren’t sure exactly how many characters they have in their written language. You could probably say the same for their food, or at least the impression I was starting to get tonight, nibbling on a chicken neck. Not only is there an endless variety of regional and sub-regional foods, they seem [...]

American children hear in grade school, at some point, that if they make a hole straight through the earth and crawl through it, they’ll wind up on the other side in China. It struck me, skyping with my Dad last night–who was living exactly 12 hours in the past, that I was in fact on [...]