Blog Tag - Peking Man
It’s a chance to play Indiana Jones, or Dora the Explorer – whichever fits your family demographic better – but the Peking Man Tour is, in many an...
Spring Festival is a time for family and blowing shit up, but since I grew up in Virginia without extended family or illegal fireworks, Chinese New...
Below are the latest changes to the guidelines for visa applications for foreign visitors, effective December 1, 2015.
Tourist Visa (“L” Visa)...
Dear friends and colleagues,
It has recently come to my attention that translation can be a lucrative business and that some people, like...
There’s no doubt Beijing has good music. There’s a lively rock scene, annual, precanceled music festivals, and some of the best Filipino cover bands...
We’ve all met him: the foreigner who’s lived in China for years but doesn’t speak a lick of Chinese. How does he do it? How does he remain, against...
By now it’s clear that the Beijing municipal government has completely ignored my ideas to reform the city’s subway system without raising ticket...
“The first year’s the best.”
Someone actually said that to me seven years ago, some grizzled expat who I swore I’d never become, and yet, as it...
I was born a carnivore. Not an omnivore, mind you – a carnivore. Growing up, I’d go out of my way to avoid vegetables, picking them out of dishes or...
When I first heard that Beijing was raising its subway fares, I spat out whatever liquid I was drinking at the time. What a preposterous idea! Such a...
BEIJING - Local cab driver Han Yansong complained to his fares Saturday about Beijing’s worsening pollution as he chain smoked a pack of Zhongnanhai...
Mosquitoes are nature’s most sadistic creation. Quiet and unseen, they subsist by sucking the very lifeblood from others, offering nothing in return...
Hi there, and congratulations on your new iPhone 5.
Let me first say that you’re a truly talented thief. I mean, one second I’m checking WeChat and...
The woman at the table next to me was shouting at the restaurant owner’s wife. By the time I tuned in, the argument was well underway. “Why not? I’m...
Peking Man is a regular feature in the Beijinger magazine.
Pretension is in the air as Beijing’s literati, artist manqués and cultural snobs come...
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