tianjin

rob.easternity.com — "Where do you draw the line between the culturally-explainable and the insane, between the everyday person on the street and the nutter? When you first get to China, and even sometimes for years afterward, the temptation is to try to use every single person’s behavior as a means of better understanding the culture. But the thing is, every country has nutters."

www.chinadaily.com.cn — Last time this hit the news I don't know anyone who thought that they were really going to do anything about it other than make some propaganda. Now it's in the news again, on a bigger scale, centered on Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei province. Of all the disgusting food scandals in China, this has to be among the most stomach-turning.

chinahopelive.net — Signs AND webcams posted in our neighbourhood in Tianjin threaten to expose citizens' identities and bad behaviour on the internet.

www.reuters.com — Reuters) - Yujiapu does not roll off the tongue like Wall Street, but planners in the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin hope it soon will.

Round-the-clock construction is transforming muddy ground into what officials boast will be the world's largest financial zone a decade from now.

rob.easternity.com — "People come down from Beijing and sniff disapprovingly at the air of bumpkin-ness Tianjin exudes compared to its ultra-pretentious cousins, but I personally love the fact that I can buy da bing ji dan from a guy wearing long underwear and a Snoopy apron."