As the Chinese New Year draws near, I am getting anxious: What gifts should I take to my hometown of Jiaxing, Zhejiang province?
What I didn't know at that time was that mainlanders go to Taiwan with the purpose of buying, and visiting while buying, while my purpose was visiting first.
My first look into the Chinese medical system came six years ago, when my wife and I traveled to see family in her hometown in Changzhou, Jiangsu province.
Back in the days when men were men and mammoths were wooly, language was a simple affair.
It's strange how I can be aware of how far behind China's first-tier cities Henan's provincial capital Zhengzhou is, yet still remain desensitized to the fact.
If there are two words in the English language that I find increasingly irritating, they are the words "consumer" and its plural.
Spring Festival will arrive as early as Jan 23 in 2012. I'm wondering where I will spend it.
Living in China, I feel that I've had to re-experience rights of passage I dealt with long ago in the US.
As Christmas flies round again, some Chinese friends have asked me how we can justify lying to our children about the man in red.
What is it about Beijing property developers?
Gorgonzola, Emmental, red Leicester, Port Salut ... every expat has a little nostalgia about home and something that they ache for.
One afternoon in November, I was strolling through a supermarket in Beijing on a quick errand.
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