Tag: Beijing
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What Half a Watermelon Says About Two Economies
Half a watermelon. 2 yuan. That’s about £0.20 at current exchange rates. The same half watermelon in the Turkish supermarket opposite my flat in London costs around £6.50. That’s roughly 32 times more expensive. People often ask me, “How can you afford to go to China every summer?” My answer is increasingly becoming: How can…
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A Confession
I have been reading the opening pages of God in Chinatown by Kenneth J. Guest. It begins with a familiar narrative: a young Chinese man leaves Fujian in 1993, endures a dangerous journey by sea and land, crosses into the United States through Mexico, hides from helicopters at the border, runs from police vans, survives…
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Heroes Are Forged in Heaven
This blog was always meant to hold more than one thing. Music.Martial arts.University life — global philosophy, Chinese language and culture. So far, most of what I’ve shared here has leaned toward writing and study. The music has stayed quieter. Not absent, just off to the side. This post brings it back in. I wrote…
