Values vs. Re-adjusting

Lately I’ve been feeling like there is some disconnect between me and many of the people I know in Janesville, WI, where I live now. I couldn’t place the cause of it or even define precisely what it was. But then an old friend from school, who herself is from Taiwan, left a comment on [...]

The Legacies of Liu Xiang and Lei Feng

The legacy of Lei Feng has one major advantage over that of what will be part of Liu Xiang’s. Lei Feng was dead before he became famous, and therefore he did not have a chance to tarnish the model image the CCP created around him.
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Tags Lei Feng, Liu Xiang, China, Role Models

Beijing 2008 in Wisconsin

It’s just a normal day for my colleagues. The biggest thing in the news is Brett Favre’s trade to the NY Jets. But today is 8-8-08! The Beijing Olympics opening ceremony is taking place right now! They couldn’t care less. For me, it’s a series of sighs. Five years in China. Five years listening to [...]

Standardized Names for Chinese Dishes

In an effort to prevent tourists from becoming confused or scared-off by Chinese dishes with names often translated directly from Chinese to English, like fish fragrance eggplant (boy doesn’t that sound delicious!), the Chinese government has developed a standardized list of names for Chinese dishes.
I think this is a great idea and I really hope [...]

Oddly Enough, China Daily More Accurate than Reuters

A Reuters article, “Masseuses told to padlock pants“, reports on masseuses in Indonesia, but uses a China Daily image from a police raid on prostitutes in a hotel in Jilin, China to go with the story:

The original image from the China Daily article:

And this is three weeks after Western media showed those images of the [...]