Qianmen area, the former core of the amazing city we call Beijing, is becoming a ghost town. In a late Sunday morning, sunny, quiet, walking around the hutong for an hour, I didn’t see any local girls or boys of my age — in their mid twenties. I saw 3 little kids playing and chasing [...]
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“….. Despite our differences, we are all alike. Beyond identities and desires, there is a common core of self – an essential humanity whose nature is peace and hose expression is thought and whose action is unconditional love. When we identify with that inner core, respecting and honoring it in others as well as ourselves, [...]
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What’s the real needs of life?
How much money do we need to have to be happy?
How much do we need to give to not feeling guilty about being previledged?
Am I like this because I work hard or am I just simply lucky?
Is it true that some people are just simply lucky?
Is it true that less [...]
Beauty in the Central Island of Lugu Lake
Double rainbows
Foggy mountain
Goddess mountain
Ladies at the edge
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Before the rain, in the small mountain in Shuhe
the heart of Shuhe, I believe.
overlooking Shuhe
rain in the pond
Shuhe
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—-To my friend Clayton who left Beijing for San Francisco in summer 2009, and to those who live on and off in Beijing…..
Fall in here three years ago destined you were going to be contaminated for ever;
The puppy in Zaoying Beili tried to tell you the grass you liked to lie on was his favorite [...]
The dark brown, soft bits seem to be very vulnerable. It is the rotten part of a peach. Any peach in the street thrown away, not wanted, because it’s rotten and people might get sick from eating it.
However, an old pair of hands were washing it, quickly, carelessly, because the old lady who is [...]
A Chinese girl is listening to a reading of a poem by her artist English lover in Hackney, “This Anon very good writer, I think I prefer to Shakespeare, much easier”, says Z, from a small industrial town in China. A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers is written in intentionally broken English by the busy [...]
我认为，多数四十岁以上的所谓“旅英作家“，“旅美作家“并不是在英国或美国旅游的，他们完全是逃亡到英国或美国的。因为根据王赓武教授的解释，中国人似乎从来都不鼓励去其他国家。即使“移民“的原意也是短期居住。这也许是中文发展被限制的原因之一。我们后代应该想一个新词。
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Thought of this title when I just got my crappy convenient noodles and tasteless crackers in Xining airport, I think it was around mid-night, when I knew that after the plane was delayed for 4 hours, we had to wait for another 2 hours.
Met a guy from Inner Mongolia who lives in Beijing, saying no [...]
