![Interview with Ian Clark - Author of "Wobushilaowai"](http://www.haohaoreport.com/files/imagecache/story_thumb/stories/Ians_book.jpg "Interview with Ian Clark - Author of "Wobushilaowai"")
Ian Clark also known as "Tao Yiran" is a true insider and not be taken as an usual common expat. He's been in this country for a decade. He has mastered Mandarin so extraordinarily well that he now works as a successful English-Chinese translator. Besides, he is a passionated musician and artist as well.
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The "First Lady of Wine" on the China wine scene and pairings for frequent flyers
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Xujun Eberlein's interview with Great Famine survivors (some of them close family members) reveals how people were told to die in doors, and that the people's respect for The Party in 1960 was so great that everyone figured the officials were not to blame. High quality writing, too.
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Did you know that after hitting the Great Wall, you can hit a wall of killer waves on Hainan? Surfing Hainan's experts give us the lowdown. Harbin's Dahai Zhang and California's Brendan Sheridan met in 2007 while surfing one of the world's last easy-to-reach tropical surf spots where you surfers aren't competing for limited waves.
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The website CHINA-BRIEFING published an article on Feb 18, 2009 with CBRC Chairman’s photo and opinions. This caused major market fluctuations for the Yuan and U.S. Dollar. But the CBRC made a statement that no CBRC officials have been interviewed by this media or by the author of this article. The interview was called "a pure fabrication".
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Snow sports are booming in China, and Icon X snowboarding guru Anne Meike Van Kinderen gives us the snowboarding where, when and...hao.
read more »Charles Silverman of City Weekend had a little chat with yours truly about blogging in general, the China Blog Awards, and Imagethief. Very little that regular readers won't know, but it can be found here if you're interested. A shorter version will appear in print next month.
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Leave it up to Pepsi to find a way to make Uyghurs act like Brazilians, Kazakhs look like Russians, or to somehow get Chinese students to dress like Japanese. This story represents much of the segregation that is normal in Xinjiang, and yet this commercial was anything but normal. Be warned, this interview is long but quite intriguing.
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Interview with the men behind new podcast 'Pissing On The Bamboo Curtain'. A monthly attempt to make sense of, and highlight, the buzzing Beijing underground live alternative music scene.
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