Since my friends and family can't visit China themselves, I try to bring China to them.
I hadn't realized the gusto of their pursuit of me until the day my friend Jon called me: "They're really looking for you, man".
China's four great inventions (si da fa ming) are the compass, gunpowder, moveable type printing press and paper.
One is a lady whom I met several years ago in a shabby classroom,Later, I was told her nickname: "Sentimental Environmentalist".
Unlike the golden hues shimmering in Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs, the golden years of a computer are not pretty.
The Guangzhou businessman was to the point. "I'm not stealing your phone," he assured me. "I'm just not giving it back."
Last week, two of our Hotpot writers shared different views on how to become a real man.
Tony Bennett left his heart in San Francisco. As a 12-year San Franciscan, I tend to leave something else of mine behind in every city I visit.
It's not every morning that you reach for your copy of the China Daily, thumb through to the Hot Pot column and that all of your back hairs stand as one.
There is a saying in China that "you're not a man until you've been to the Great Wall".
After joining China Daily last year, a colleague suggested we begin a Test Drive column.
Two decades ago, the wife of the US ambassador in Beijing, a Chinese American, complained that Chinese did not know how to properly "package their wares".
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