...increasingly looking further west. Living Cross-culturally Things I Wish I’d Known (August 31, ChinaSource Blog) Support development, job training, vaccinations, visas, and packing luggage to precisely 50 lbs. a piece...
...Rich Asians (August 21, 2018, Alexander Chow) Yet I find myself in an odd position given that I am an Asian American in the diaspora. I cannot partake in the same way in...
...invited said, “I’m not interested in the Bible.” She hung around the edge of the conversation. She didn’t want to sit down, didn’t want to hold the book but she...
...pulled. You can tell if a la mian shop is run by a Lanzhou native or a Qinghai impersonator by their chili sauce. The flour must be high-gluten. I know...
...Living Cross-culturally I’m Off to Fix Something (August 6, 2018, ChinaSource Blog) Finally, one of my colleagues hit the nail on the head. “It’s the way an American walks,” she said. “The walk...
...related to my family history. Rural-urban inequality is a part of the reality that I grew up with. When I studied abroad, I began to realize that the Chinese hukou...
...time, it was all over and everyone went back to their regularly scheduled activities. In their book, American Cultural Patterns: A Cross-cultural Perspective, Stewart and Bennet discuss this American tendency to...
.../ Business Made in China: Laszlo Montgomery’s other life in Chinese manufacturing (July 26, 2018, China Channel) But when I first started out as a China watcher, back in the day, I...
...skill to the American West. This isn’t your typical American immigrant story but then again, Ing Hay and Long On weren’t your typical immigrants. 3. Soul of a Superpower – Ian...
...language learner’s guide to reading comics in Chinese (July 18, 2018, Hacking Chinese) I have read comic books ever since I learned how to read, I came into Chinese-language comics with a...
...published this book of essays on his experience. This was the first book that I read that caused me to smack my head and say “I wish I’d written that.”...
...after our recent block. What I Wish I’d Known Before I Moved to Beijing (July 18, 2018, The Beijinger) A discussion among our colleagues in the beijingkids office had them wondering what advice expats...