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fly, pigeon!
today i bought this second-hand bird. the FP brand was once china’s national bicycle, but is losing credibility among the young who want shiny new electric scooters and such, and is fast becoming a daggy representative of the old china for which only foreigners like me are nostalgic. i adore its squeaky pedals and safety…
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great walls
i send my possibly-pictureless greetings from behind the great firewall of china! i have been struggling a little with the restriction of online sources and images… pretty much no video and nothing run by blogger, nor tumblr – but my (wp) blog is still working, along with most of my radical news sources. in china’s…
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haochi
After a week in China I am still trying to convince myself that this residency is work-related, but realistically, it would only be true at the moment if I became a food writer. This is a career trajectory I could live with. Writing from Chengdu, Sechuan province, which despite the intense humidity is a charming…
