Peering into the Precipice

I try not to make a habit out of just linking other, better websites, but this blog has proved so consistently poignant I feel like I must. I believe the author is an English teacher here in Beijing and spends most of that inevitable free time watching his brain enlarge, obsessing over the new CCTV [...]

There’s a lot of talk these days about how the Chinese are a shrewd folk when push comes to shove. At times, desperate seems more appropriate. Most often, merely ingrained with a herd mentality that is far more extreme than what I have witnessed anywhere in the West. This isn’t necessarily the herd mentality of [...]