Category Archives: China

Kitchen Chinese

Posted on November 4, 2015 by Meg

Just finished reading Kitchen Chinese by Ann Mah. I was pretty much hooked as soon as the protagonist explains she only knows food words in Chinese. Hey, me too! This turned out to be an awesome story about Beijing expat life, with … Continue reading →

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Homework Memories

Posted on October 25, 2015 by Meg

I wrote, in Yangzhou, about how annoying my online class is, but I don’t think I wrote about actually doing the work. One evening in Yangzhou, I was trying to finish my homework so I could go out with my friends. … Continue reading →

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Bad Airport Day

Posted on October 13, 2015 by Meg

I’d been thinking that I just need one bad China day to make it easier to go home. But I haven’t had one, Yangzhou was wonderful, minus that whole flooded bathroom thing, and my Shanghai girlcation has been filled with writing … Continue reading →

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Notes From Shanghai

Posted on September 28, 2015 by Meg

I haven’t written as much as I expected to write About China, because I’ve been experiencing a reverse Dunning-Kruger on this trip. I’m realizing more and more the immensity of what I don’t yet understand about China, and so whenever I start to … Continue reading →

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This Is Our Destiny

Posted on September 26, 2015 by Meg

I had a hard time getting Marcus’ latest book here in Yangzhou. Hahaha! Can you believe that’s a sentence I just wrote? Such subversive poems are banned in Middle Kingdom, I guess.  What I really want to do is take this back to when … Continue reading →

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In A Different Time

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Meg

Another late summer evening in Yangzhou, and Ian and I have landed at Ronnie’s bar again. I could write an epic on the expat bar in Yangzhou, how I’ve come in with different friends or met up with different friends, sat at the bar … Continue reading →

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More Similar Than You Know

Posted on September 24, 2015 by Meg

Shortly before I started dating my now-husband, I was seeing a writer in Los Angeles. He’s a really great guy, handsome, funny, talented…  Uh. Yeah.  This is relevant! I’m going somewhere with this! The other day, one of my students told me … Continue reading →

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Seeing Measure Words in Bamboo

Posted on September 18, 2015 by Meg

The other day, I went to eat with a coworker at the secret upstairs noodle shop. Some expat friends are friends of convenience, the other English speakers in a foreign country, and after so many rounds of Hello, I am … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Tapped

Posted on September 17, 2015 by Meg

Tapped by AJ Maguire tells the story of a family of veteran space smugglers, who pick up three passengers with even more to hide. This story has a lot of the themes and characters we all loved in Firefly. Space drama has … Continue reading →

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More of My Mandarin Superpowers

Posted on September 16, 2015 by Meg

Student: Do you eat Chinese food? Meg: Yes, I eat it everyday, I’m in China. Student: But how do you order it? Meg: 请给我青椒肉丝* Student: You can speak Chinese?!?! Meg: We’re having this conversation in China.   *This is kind … Continue reading →

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