It was bound to happen, of course. The irrational exuberance about ‘China’s Century‘ has begun to abate. The New York Times has given extensive coverage to the problems of China’s legal system and government corruption, and these same two themes were also high-lighted in a critical survey of the country in the recent Foreign Affairs… Continue reading End of the China bubble?
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Back from Vietnam
Hello, loyal readers. Sorry there has not been much to read lately. We’ve just resturned from a two-week trip to Vietnam, and will have pictures and some text up soon. (I’m currently trying to winnow our stock of over 1,300 Vietnam pictures down to a select two hundred or so.) In the meantime, though, I… Continue reading Back from Vietnam
Hapless rooster newlyweds
Oh no! It turns out we were married in an unlucky year: the Chinese are apparently calling 2005, the Year of the Rooster, the “widow year” because the last month of the lunar year had only 29 days, instead of 30. So everyone’s waiting for the Year of the Dog (starting January 29th) to get… Continue reading Hapless rooster newlyweds
We’re back!
We’ve just returned from a trip to the south, a classic China-travel whirlwind featuring three overnight trains and one overnight bus all in the space of a week and one day. Each day of our travels the words “peak season” rang in our ears more loudly and ominously, as tickets from one place to another… Continue reading We’re back!
A year without China
It’s been amusing and a little scary to find that almost everything we brought with us from the US was not traveling to a strange country, but rather returning to the land where it was made. Even the new computer I’m typing on, which to qualify for a special price had to be shipped to… Continue reading A year without China