Oh, I am tired. This is what happens when you turn 35. (As I did a few days ago.) And you have a cold. Today I attended four! events at the Bookworm Festival. There were originally only two on my schedule, but what can I say, everything piqued my interest. But I am tired this [...]
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My head is spinning and it is not because it has been a month and a half since I updated this blog. It’s also not the head cold I am in the process of developing, although I suspect all the NyQuil I am about to take will definitely produce that effect. No, my head is [...]
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What I’ve been reading this past week (er, weekend actually.) China: Five Myths About China’s Economy – Washington Post 11 April 2010 – HT to @NiuB Stability Preservation in China – ChinaGeeks 10 April 2010 – HT to @GraniteStudio The World: Unrest in Thailand – The Big Picture from The Boston Globe 9 April 2010 [...]
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Reading today: Rethinking the American Dream by David Kamp in the April Vanity Fair “…that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for every man, with opportunity for each according to his ability or achievement.” Looking at it that way, the American Dream still exists, as it always will. [...]
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It was a hot afternoon in Chiang Mai, Thailand and I was trying to keep to the sliver of shade at the edge of the narrow street. My arms were full of books. I had just spent a couple of hours combing through the used book stores along the road. I was anxious to get [...]
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reading right now (And what I think you should read, too!) Has AT&T Lost Its Mind? by Tim Wu – So I hear AT&T wants to filter the Internet. Bad idea, here’s why. Last time I checked, we were living in 2008 not 1984. Waving Good-bye to Hegemony by Parag Khanna – just what will [...]
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Today I have a book recommendation. “Chinese Lessons” by John Pomfret. Pomfret first came to China as a foreign student in the early 80s. Later, he returned as a journalist. “Chinese Lessons” presents the stories of his fellow classmates, among the first students to return to university post-Cultural Revolution. Through Pomfret’s writing, these classmates share [...]
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Doris Lessing, one of my favorite authors has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. I couldn’t be happier.
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“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” Ray Bradbury This week is banned books week in the US, and it is all the more pertinent to me since I live in a society where books are frequently banned, movies are censored, protests are squashed, news [...]
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I wanted to share an interesting website. Saudi Aramco World Saudi Aramco World is a magazine devoted to sharing the culture, history and geography of Arab and Muslim lands, through articles and photography. It is available online, as a downloadable PDF and, free, as a print subscription. It is of great interest to anyone who [...]
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I'm an American expat living on the fringe of Chinese society. Thanks to a lifetime spent moving around, I often feel like an outsider. This blog explores life in Beijing, China, the occasional aviation topic, expat issues, random travel experiences and interesting things I see, read and hear. If you want to know more about my latest hobby, visit Sewing on the Fringe, where I blog about learning to sew in Beijing. And for daily documentation of Beijing's ever changing air quality, visit My Beijing Window.
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