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Springtime neighbourhood taiji lessons 太极拳
Posted on 28/04/2013
Saw this on the walk to work (I live and work in the same neighbourhood). These guys are out most mornings. Kicking myself for not having my real camera on hand and having to take these...
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Our neighbourhood’s anti-Japanese restaurant
Posted on 22/04/2013
I ducked my head in this restaurant to see if they served dog. Turns out they don’t serve Japanese. And they totally weren’t seeing the slogan possibility with serving dog but...
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Don’t eat dog? We sure missed that memo…...
Posted on 16/04/2013
When we were beginner language students I translated a dog restaurant menu just for fun. Now this week in Beijing they’re telling people to stop eating dogs. A friend posted this...
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Chengguan cracksdown on vegetables and chickens, ignores...
Posted on 12/04/2013
I know everyone wants to talk about North Korea’s nukes and bird flu, but here’s the big news from our neighbourhood today: a legion of chengguan 城管 showed up to crackdown...
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H7N9 bird flu notice on our gate (translated)
Posted on 10/04/2013
Interestingly enough, this was posted beside another notice about how people aren’t allowed to tear up the grass to plant vegetable gardens or raise chickens. Warm and Fragrant...
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Healthiness & the Passive-Aggressive Window Game: Chinese...
Posted on 03/04/2013
When we first arrived in China it was early spring, and we quickly discovered it was standard for people to wear three or more pairs of pants. Indoors. I assumed it was because they had to,...
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3 random Easter-in-China photos
Posted on 31/03/2013
Three photos from this Easter weekend in Qingdao that just happen to represent three different kinds of Chinese engagement with Christianity. Easter in Chinese is “Resurrection...
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Learning Chinese? You gotta 趁 your 机会s
Posted on 30/03/2013
Going to class and book studying is not enough to learn a living, spoken language. If you’re aiming for ancient Hebrew or Koine Greek then schoolwork is enough because you’re...
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Eastern Lightning/Church of Almighty God cult: How...
Posted on 22/03/2013
Every week I hear more stories of people we know having run-ins with the Eastern Lightning/Church of Almighty God cult (东方闪电 / 全能父教会). My growing impression is that our...
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How to combat doomsday cults and other undesirables:...
Posted on 20/03/2013
Hitting problems sideways goes back thousands of years in China. Wéiqí 围棋 (aka “encirclement chess” aka “Go”) is at least 2500 years old. And while...
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