Archive for June, 2004
You’d think I would have mentioned it earlier, but Friday was my last day on the job. Not that it was my last day in the office — I’m typing away at my desk right now — but it does mean that I’m going to have limited access to the Internet until I can get […]
We’ve been out of coffee at the office for two weeks or more, and this morning I snapped. I just couldn’t stand it any more, so I headed to the nearby Houhai Starbucks, a short 12-yuan cab ride away. While waiting for them to unlock the doors (what kind of coffee shop opens at 10 […]
I enjoyed reading Nicholas Kristof’s dispatches from China when he was stationed here in the late ’80s and early ’90s, and with the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square incident around the corner, he checks in with a thought-provoking column:
The Tiananmen Victory
“So, 15 years after Tiananmen, we can see the Communist dynasty fraying. The aging […]
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