Peering into the Precipice

Here in China, websites are regularly blocked and unblocked. I think the most consistently blocked sites that I wish I could visit are the BBC, Wikipedia, and this one (blogging through a proxy sucks). While all can be accessed with workarounds, sometimes the process, which can take essentially no additional time if you’re lucky, can [...]

Since my new job began my long habit of being a rabid news junky has really taken a back seat. While teaching English a whopping 16 hours a week it was easy to keep up with basically any news the west could dish out at me. Not so these days; although I read article after [...]

Over the week long National Holiday a friend and I, desperate to burn those 7 days besides with DVDs (which I’m certain all non-traveling expats resign themselves to) went to check out Beijing’s 798 Art District. Apparently the place was originally an electronics factory, but with nouveau rich an ever rising part of the population [...]