Beggars are part of life in China. Foreigners tend to have somewhat different opinions whether you should or should not give. Is the beggar king raking it in, are they pretending?
It doesn’t really matter to me. In the end of the day a couple of Renminbis is easy to spare, even if […]
Interesting to read that a management change in one of the more progressive Chinese newspapers, the Beijing News, isn’t going as smoothly as planned.
From the BBC
About 100 journalists from one of China’s most progressive newspapers, the Beijing News, have walked out to protest against their editor’s sacking.
There was no mention of the walk-out in […]
Beijng a lawyer for the weak and poor in China is no picnic. Some excerpts from the daily life of lawyer Gao.
I went out this early this morning to exercise in the park. Several plainclothesmen were around me. Compared to before, the scale of the surveillance has clearly gone up.
Wherever […]
It was supposed to be a Christmas performance we were going to attend. It turned out to be a disco with X-mas decoration.
Christmas is good business for entertainment venues as Chinese take it as an extra chance to have a party.
Each table in the place had a nice sign with the minimum […]
Contrary to yesterday tonight there was no guy sitting next to the elevator. Instead the chair had moved into the elevator with two girls handing out businesscards while whispering, ni yao anmo ma?.
Again I declined the offer for massage. Maybe tomorrow evening they will already be in my room, including the chair.
We’ll leave […]
We are staying in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan, visiting W.’s family.
Just had a nice dinner with one of her friends and as Chengdu dialect is the mode of communication I took an early leave to the hotel so W. and her friend could catch up without being bothered by me.
We stay in the […]
A small Belgium Chocolate Workshop has opened in my neighbourhood. As it’s almost Christmas we bought a couple of Santa Clauses as a gift to spread some more western ideology.
The real news is though that they also sell the Chocolate version of Sinterklaas (Saint Nicholas), a person who actually really existed and whose […]
