Tag Archives: China
Nuren Jie
Yesterday, Stick and I went exploring at the famous Lady Street (Nuren Jie). They have some gorgeous flower stalls, manicure and massage places, and lots of clothes shopping. The shopping was kind of like a less pushy, more expensive Silk … Continue reading
Grave-Sweeping Day
My first year in China, Grave-Sweeping Day wasn’t an official state holiday, but this year it became a government-approved day off from work. Lee In China explains how to celebrate this holiday, (no fireworks are involved): Today is a national … Continue reading
Reasons To Work In China
In the belief that such things are very Western, my school encourages me to wear jeans, sneakers and t-shirts to work. Subscribe to Violet Eclipse by Email
Page Not Found
I’ve been searching YouTube for a filmclip of today’s torch ceremony for the Beijing Olympics FAN! blog, but something in my search terms keeps giving me a Page Not Found. When I get the 404, it blocks anything else on … Continue reading
Beijing Protests
Some of my more brilliant comments didn’t end up on the show’s podcast, so here’s what I said the first time: We already see China as an economic power, we don’t need the Olympics to show us that everything in … Continue reading
Olympic Regrets Podcast
I’ve having trouble linking directly to the episode (seems like some parts of the BBC’s site are accessible but others are 404), but if you go to their podcasts page, you can get the March 27th episode, called “Is China … Continue reading
Olympic Regrets?
World Have Your Say is discussing China and the Olympics tonight. The show asks the question, will China regret hosting the Olympics? I’ll be on talking about why China won’t regret it and how an Olympic protest could actually be … Continue reading
Candidate For The Amazing Race
I wasn’t going to post this because it makes me look a little, uh, dumb. But then I thought, maybe you did something slightly dopey today and if you did, this will make you feel all better. I thought I’d … Continue reading
Monday Evening
It’s a typical night in the Meg Autonomous Region. We’ve just had dinner, which was a rocking version of Mama Hoffmann’s stuffed mushrooms, only with every ingredient replaced with something I can find in Fengtai. We watched a disc of … Continue reading
Gaming In A Strange Land
I’m really excited to be working with the CN Reviews team, joining Elliot Ng, David Feng, Min Guo and Kai Pan. CNReviews is a thoughtful discussion on tech, travel, trends, the China blogosphere, and the crazy adventures when East meets … Continue reading
