Online travel guides to Chinese cities are generally bad, either too cursory or written in barely readable Chinglish. This guide is different: it's well written, thoroughly researched and, I think, contains enough to keep you busy for quite a long stay in China's Venice.
read more »
On the morning of July 22, a solar eclipse will darken skies over a large swathe of Asia. The eclipse’s umbra – an area of almost complete darkness, where the sun, moon and earth’s surface are perfectly aligned – will pass over north-east India, China’s middle and Japan’s Pacific Ocean islands.
read more »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.
read more »
One expat's thoughts on his current home, Suzhou, being labeled the 14th Worst Place to Work in the World by Business week.
To see the original story go to: http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/03/0304_difficult_cities/1.htm
read more »
So, y'know that guy wanted for allegedly raping his daughter who turned out to be hanging in Suzhou, not really hiding at all? Bill Dobson of This is China knew him, had lunch with him, and says he gave few signs of being the extremely creepy individual we've heard about in the last week.
read more »
An American fugitive accused of raping his daughter and posting videos of the abuse on the Internet lived openly in China, even enjoying visits from his new wife and registering at a local fitness club under his own name.
read more »Though this story happens in Suzhou, it's an interesting peek into the seedier side of the crime and punishment on tap in China. It has all the makings of The Shield: China.
read more »When moving to southern China to avoid the cold harsh winters of the north east I never expected to find myself hugging a heater that ironically more resembles a fan and wondering why, after all these years, the south is so ill-fitted for their cold winters.
read more »
