The Sydney Morning Herald (among others) is reporting that the official Chinese language version of Hillary Clinton’s biography, Living History, has been censored by Chinese officials.
Senator Clinton’s book has become a bestseller in China, as it has in the US, and her smiling likeness decorates bookstores and airport shops nationwide.
Yilin Press, the Government-owned publisher of [...]
The foreign teacher contingent at ZUCC is a very well-connected bunch, it seems. Not only do I, your illustrious author, maintain a weblog, but so do four of my fellow teachers: (the other) John, Alf, Carl and Russell. So now you can have four perspectives on living and working in Hangzhou, each [...]
I’ve been at a loss for anything particularly interesting or worthwhile (not that I’ve ever let that stop me before) to post, so instead I’ll steal someone a quote from a book I’m reading:
“The longer a person lives, the more he or she tends to dwell on the past rather than live in dynamic interaction [...]
Found this little blurb while perusing that’s Shanghai, a free monthly culture and events magazine for, you guessed it, Shanghai. I can’t find an online link for it, but if I do I’ll post it.
Athens’ Alternative Olympic Games
Beijing Olympic organisers, take note. According to leading Chinese Internet portal Tom.com, Athens officials have issued [...]
As of tomorrow (Wednesday) I will have been in China for four weeks, and in that time it feels like I’ve done just about everything and nothing at all. My social life, for one, seems to have exactly two speeds, none and insane, with absolutely no middle ground. Some nights it involves watching [...]