The covid-19 pandemic is still spreading, I thought about Michael Lewis’ 2016 book, The Undoing Project, where he included the Asian disease problem: say, there…
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The covid-19 pandemic is still spreading, I thought about Michael Lewis’ 2016 book, The Undoing Project, where he included the Asian disease problem: say, there…
In early 2019, a new term in the President Trump’s trade war with China caught my attention: “enforcement measures”. When the Phase One trade deal was…
Liu Shijia was my Great-Great-great grandfather · 刘世家公是我的六世祖. Liu Shijia 刘世家 1795-1869 + Lady Hu (1793-1880) Liu Jingyun 刘景赟 1818-1878 Liu Jingxian 刘景贤 Bingzhang 秉璋; 1826-1905 Liu Tiqian 刘体乾 1873-1932…
The Russian embassy in Beijing posted this message on their Weibo today, celebrating 160 years anniversary of Vladivostok. Here is the 8:10 min video. My first…
Lao Gan Ma (old godmother) chilli sauce is very popular, inside and outside of China, and for a while it was in my refrigerator too.…
Becoming a farmer! One of many things and foods I tried during this covid-19 pandemic is to grow my own stuff: oyster mushroom stick I…
The Chinese: A General Description of the Empire of China and its Inhabitants, by Sir John Francis Davis, esq. F.R.S. etc., had two volumes published…
Cement tiles from Chee Hsin Pottery: #120/121b/122c and #170/171b/172c. This is a PS photo, done with this piece, by Huang ⇒ Yongjia Lu 永嘉路 Tianjin 易兆云旧居…