In the Malaysia post I talked about China’s racial homogeneity and how it is a far more definitive element of the Chinese identity than most people realize. After 6000 years of inexorably assimilating minority tribes and even conquering outsiders (the Mongols and Manchurians) into the Han culture, the Children of the Yellow Emperor all harbor [...]
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“不好意思，我又把我的钥匙留在房子里面。” I think that’s right. Is it? It’s what I plan on saying to the groundskeeper who lives on the floor below me when I return home tonight, because I need to get back into my room. After closing the door and fishing through my pockets, I realized belatedly that I left [...] Only thirty minutes ago, Dad emailed me and my brother to tell us that he and Mom had been with Suzanne when she passed away an hour earlier. What had I been doing while they were sitting by her hospital bed? Chatting with a friend on the Internet, then putting my laptop into [...] (Hopefully, I’ll have pictures inserted throughout this long-ish post soon.) The first stage of cultural exchange is commonly called the “honeymoon” period, the time when baby expats get moonstruck by being in a brand spankin’ new place. But when I first got to China, I didn’t feel particularly excited. It could have been a [...] |
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