Yesterday (4/21) was a national day of mourning to remember the 2000+ people who died in the Qinghai earthquake on April 14th. In addition to flags flown at half mast, newspapers and online sites honored the victims by going black. Entertainment, video, and music websites stopped offering their content for 24 hours and featured black [...]
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Many people have checked in to see if I’m okay after seeing China’s latest earthquake in the news. Thanks for your thoughts and messages – all of us far away in Beijing are safe and didn’t feel a thing (we’re 1190 miles away). Qinghai (pronounced ching-hi) is a remote area in China’s Tibetan region and [...]
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I have a confession to make. I was wearing flip flops around the apartment and wore them right into the shower today. I don’t know why I suddenly reverted back to my college days and their accompanying grody showers, but I looked down and there they were. Aside from wearing my shoes into the shower, [...]
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If you hadn’t heard, Google cried foul after it was hacked and fled mainland China for Hong Kong. When this happened on March 22, users visiting google.com were automatically directed to its Kong Kong site, google.com.hk. From there searches worked just like anything else in the mainland – results are censored for anything deemed objectionable [...]
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We had another sandstorm on Monday, and this one was the worst I’ve seen since moving to Beijing in 2007. As I was leaving the main academic building after a class I watched a huge gust of wind come along, pick up a bike, and slam it to the ground four feet away. And then [...]
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I really enjoyed seeing the Gobi desert in Inner Mongolia back in 2008. Inner Mongolia is a province of China, not a part of the country of Mongolia, and it’s home to grasslands and lots of sand. I had no idea that those kind of sand dunes existed outside northern Africa or the Middle East, [...]
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