Benjamin Ross is a blogger from Kansas who has been living the high life of a Western expat in China these last three years. Ben decided to surrender his ... Read More

The Chinese government is clamping down on independent travelers in Tibet in response to the American-staged protest at the foot of Mt. Everest last month. Three Americans and a Tibet-American unfurled ... Read More

So the Trolley car is poised to make a comeback in Shanghai. Which is good because I like old things and China is in far too much of a ... Read More

OK, so that might not have been the snappiest title, but there are many nouns involved. The Wall Street Journal - One of the world's oldest and most respect English language ... Read More

The portrait of Chairman Mao, which sits above the main gate to the Forbidden City, gazing out onto Tiananmen Square, was vandalized this weekend. The vandal---possibly Gu Haiou, a ... Read More

Just the other week I wrote about Lu Xun's short story "Medicine" (1919), where two parents try to cure their young son of tuberculosis by feeding him a medicine made ... Read More

Or at least, that's how a kinder interpretation of China's red, yellow and neon blue water might read A friend from Treehugger.com sent me a link to one of the more ... Read More

Is the Chinese Love of Lighter Skin Racist? In China, come home after a hard day's work, turn on the TV, and I guarantee you that on any given night, a ... Read More

The Spritual Civilization Committee Strikes Again! Over the May Holiday either the police received a special directive from the Spritual Civilization Committee (that's China's official "etiquette watchdog" in case you couldn't ... Read More

I write so much about Chinese current events that I thought it might be a good idea to go a bit futher back, dig into some modern history you may ... Read More

Why That Headline is All Too Typical The International Herald Tribune reports Chinese authorities have arrested Mao Lijun, the general manager of the company thought responible for exporting contaminated wheat gluten ... Read More