The Forbidden City was large, it was cold, and it certainly left a bad taste in my mouth. Nothing better to cure such maladies than a true Peking Duck Lunch! Duck Webbing is not for the faint of heart.
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Richard Burger, an editor and columnist and blogger at PekingDuck.org, shares his five most significant stories of the decade. Few have watched China as closely as Richard over the last 10 years, and it's cool to get his perspective on what the key stories were.
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People enjoy a good horror story. In fact, travel writing often feeds on the negative aspects of a place rather than the positive. A guest lecturing journalist at my university once said that good travel writing is full of horror, the unexpected and the absurd.
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The latest in the Lost Laowai series of posts that interview prominent English-language China bloggers. In this post I chat with Richard Burger and his blog The Peking Duck -- one of the longest running blogs by a China expat (maybe the oldest?).
read more »The Peking Duck points to an error that CNN made about their former Beijing bureau chief, Rebecca MacKinnon, as an example that all the Anti-CNN supporters in China can take lesson from. Basically, CNN doesn't specifically target China with a negative light - it just makes lots of mistakes and generally produces very poor news coverage - it's nothing personal.
read more »According to a somewhat rumour-like posting on a message board, Taiwan may be looking at switching to Hanyu pinyin - at least officially. 50 comments in 24 hours at the Duck, "hot topic" doesn't cover it.
read more »The Duck links to FP Magazine's list of the top ten worst Chinese laws. As is frequently the case at the Duck - the meat is in the comments.
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