Blog Tag - Page Turners
Author and journalist Fokke Obbema, who works on the foreign desk at Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant, discusses his new book China and the West, in...
“For three years in China we had the same ayi, a woman who came twice a week to clean our apartment, with a vengeance, for four hours a pop. You...
From its raw, relentless winds to its barren, icy planes, the tiny northeastern Chinese village known as Wasteland seems more than suited to its name...
How do you follow up a Beijing-based, New York Times bestselling true crime book? A sequel? Another mystery? If you’re Paul French, neither. Instead...
Intercultural relationships can be a wonderful or contentious part of living overseas, and sometimes both. Often it works out, but occasionally it...
Perhaps no activity has encapsulated China’s rags-to-riches rise over the past three decades better than golf. Like many foreign ideas, goods, and...
“One February morning, I woke up to something alarming that had happened overnight – the whites of my eyes had grown larger than my irises, tiny...
Seems like people in the public relations industry in Beijing need other outlets to express themselves. Will Moss and David Wolf were both popular...
Jonathan Fenby is no one-trick pony. Formerly the editor of the South China Morning Post and senior correspondent for The Economist in Europe, he...
It’s hard to imagine a time when buying a boat would have been illegal, but in 1846, that was the case. China, believing that the ships it built...
Today Lao She is remembered for mostly three things: first, his novel Rickshaw Boy, bringing to life the urban chaos of Beijing’s street life;...
Mitch Moxley, as he likes to remind his reader, is something of a celebrity in Beijing’s expat circles. An aspiring journalist who found himself...