Category Archives: China
Reflections on my Experience Learning to Write Chinese Characters – Sinosplice
I read Sinosplice regularly in my Yantai and Beijing days, and I took a lot of inspiration and encouragement from John’s accounts of learning Chinese. (My Mandarin skills still tap out at basic restaurant vocabulary, but I did turn that … Continue reading
Beijing Ghost
If You Could See The Sun, by Ann Liang, uses a supernatural invisibility power to tell a moving, realistic story about class, money, and adolescence in Beijing. When teenage “Study Machine” Alice Sun discovers her invisibility power, she immediately puts … Continue reading
Accurate
View this post on Instagram Damn, fortune cookie. A post shared by Meg (@simpsonsparadox) on Jun 22, 2019 at 4:54pm PDT
Biang Biang
We ‘re adding a special expansion card to Takeout as an SDCC exclusive. (I can’t believe that’s an actual sentence I just typed.) I’ve been considering adding either Taiwanese pineapple cake or Xian pulled noodles, both really stylish, specific foods … Continue reading
Restocking
This time, they sold out because a customer bought several boxes to take on an overseas trip — I think as small, portable gifts for their hosts. It’s so lovely that my game about expat adventures is going to be part of someone else’s travel adventure! Continue reading
白穷美 Reading List
Yeah, so I requested all of the books Corinna Ko-Tung tells Kitty Pong to read (in China Rich Girlfriend) from the library.
Essential Chinese: No Cilantro 不要香菜
I’ve been confusing 香菜 and 香草 since 2007, so I’m always worried that I’m asking for a cilantro latte or extra vanilla on my cool noodles. The other day, a Chinese student asked me in Mandarin how to say No … Continue reading
All Roads Lead To Yangzhou
A post shared by Meg (@simpsonsparadox) on May 23, 2018 at 6:35pm PDT We’re now selling enough Takeout that we’re moving from print-on-demand to a traditional printer. (Don’t get too excited, we’re still using our living room as the shipping … Continue reading
Five Star Billionaire
Rereading Five Star Billionaire, and I found a line I highlighted last time. China was at once lawless and unbending in its rules. Tash Aw, Five Star Billionaire Still so accurate.
Shanghaist and Gothamist Are Over
A week ago, reporters and editors in the combined newsroom of DNAinfo and Gothamist, two of New York City’s leading digital purveyors of local news, celebrated victory in their vote to join a union. On Thursday, they lost their jobs, … Continue reading
