Blog Tag - Old China Hand
If you’ve been on Dianping and WeChat Channels as much as we are – trust me, we’re on there quite a bit – you’ll have noticed videos posted by a...
From the moment Terry Townshend laid eyes on the Ibisbill – gazing at its striking gray, black, and white feathers, along with its bright, downward-...
There are lively interviewees, and then there’s Nancy Jenkinson Brown. The British expat has the air of a golden age jazz musician, with her regal...
Don't miss DJ Jay 1, 2's set on Oct 14 as part of the 2018 Beijing Pizza Festival, this Saturday and Sunday.
If you’ve been to even a single event...
Even though Edwin Maher reported on many exhilarating stories during his 14-year stint as a news anchor at CCTV 9, one of his most gripping China...
David Cantalupo hasn’t been in Beijing so long as to have taken a slow boat to China, but he did in fact once take one back to the US. Decades before...
At 37-years-old, Sahra Malik might seem too young to be an “old China hand.” However, the decade that the Shangrila Farms (shangrilafarms.com) co-...
Imagine being a Chinese tourist not native to Beijing, strolling down one of the capital’s hutongs and happening upon a smiling foreigner sporting...
Moto Uchiyama should count himself lucky, because his two most successful bars – the long-running Mokihi in Liangmaqiao, and the newer Mokihi No. 3...
Lush, freshly planted flowers. Wide, manicured walkways. A perfect place to take your date for a stroll.
All of these descriptions would never, ever...
Given the number of bricked-up businesses and crackdowns on long-running favorites, simply running a restaurant seems like no small feat in Beijing...
It doesn’t take long for a conversation with Bruce Connolly to veer into a maze of tangents, akin to walking a winding route through the hutongs he...
Mark Levine has played at massive festivals for audiences of thousands, shot music videos atop the Great Wall, as well as received the Friendship...
Jane Su, a Wisconsin-native, made the move to China long before it was cool.
Su first came to Beijing in 1957, after marrying a Chinese heart surgeon...
As an old China hand, Gilbert Van Kerckhove did more than just witness China’s meteoric economic growth; he in fact played a helping hand in pushing...