Sweet & Sour
[2009-06-08 10:20]When my small construction materials trading company in Beijing began to see greater sales and turnover, after a two-year struggle.
Great expat-ations
[2009-06-08 10:20]I came to China with my husband and two small children because of my husband's local real estate business, Home Abroad.
When you have a ent-boy, what's the need for hurry?
[2009-05-19 10:02]My son has turned 4, but I'm increasingly impatient with him, believing he is too slow in almost everything. However, sometimes I do wonder, what's the hurry?
Never lose sight of the white wolf in the new Wild Wild East
[2009-05-14 09:48]To say that in the new Wild Wild East of China, anything is possible, may sound like a tiresome clich. But clichs do seem to exist for a reason.
Mum's not the word for tycoon's beauty queen wife
[2009-05-14 09:18]It appears a Hong Kong beauty contest winner has refuted scientist Richard Dawkins' "selfish gene" theory.
The little ray of sunshine that brought out the poet in me
[2009-05-13 09:47]For me, beating around the bush is now pass. I communicate with you today - almost six months after I arrived in China - because I want to relive an emotion I never thought I could feel.
In awe of Beijing: a reminder that age cannot wither her
[2009-05-12 09:47]Even though I'd only flown halfway around the planet, I felt like I was a world away when I first came to China.
An American drifter's million-dollar mantra for happiness
[2009-05-07 09:27]Donald was my PhD advisor in Boston. I have forgotten all of what he had taught me about evolution and molecular biology.
Zhao's executive decision may win him comic relief
[2009-05-07 09:08]The country's comic laureate, Zhao Benshan, quietly enrolled at Hong Kong's Cheung Kong Graduate School on Monday in order to become a qualified CEO.
Bohemian, no rhapsody
[2009-05-07 08:53]Western opera is not as popular in China as Peking Opera so a local angle is sometimes necessary to make it more accessible.
China's quest for 'est' not quite the best
[2009-05-06 09:50]China loves being "est". Biggest, tallest, widest, highest, all words spoken proudly in China to describe buildings, dams, bridges and anything else that a superlative adjective can be applied to.
For a real start to China life, begin to see 2 as 8
[2009-05-05 09:40]The big strawberries on the Beijing market remind me of my first spring here back in 1991.
