Photos are from Feng: the former residence of Xu Youzhang at Xu Village. The wood carving doors and windows are beautiful. The door is 仪门头,…
truth is stranger than fiction
A school boy said good bye to his mother on Mother’s Day, then a couple of hours later, leapt to his death in school. School…
China or Chinese view Nobel Prize differently: they coveted it so much, they bragged about whom he or she had nominated (really? “The names of…
Click farm/fake review is a modern term and a fraud: you or a business pay someone to click an ad link or write fake reviews.…
A retired cadre I met in Tangshan in 2019 often posts things that open my eyes. Here is one: 南海抓到“大黑鱼”了,美核潜艇被迫投降,丢人丢大发了 ⇒ Google translates: The “big black fish”…
Some recent news: SpaceX capsule returned India covid-19 Tesla in Shanghai, and Berlin Elon Musk‘s SpaceX capsule returned four astronauts back to earth (after six…
How Jacob Loud’s land was lost, on Planet Money. This photo is from NPR. In 1999, Fred Wardlaw got a phone call from his mother.…
Today is the 24th anniversary of Deng’s passing. I still remembered the cover story Time magazine did in 1997: The Next China – Will Deng’s…