CHINA

Country Overview:

“Love the food, hate the government”

I arrived in China in May 2013 and left August 2020. I taught English for awhile, did my master’s of politics & foreign policy at Tsinghua University, worked for a year at China Today, and then two years at Xinhua News Agency. I spent most of my time in Beijing, but also traveled to Shanghai, Wuhan, Inner Mongolia, Shenzhen, Panjin, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Qingdao, Xi’an, Sanya, Macau, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

Degen Hill 7/16/13 Degen Hill 7/16/13

Give it to the gringo..

I somehow ended up with a fake 50 RMB. It’s for sure fake, the texture, the weight, but I’m not about to just throw it away. I’ve gotta figure out how to get it back into circulation. If I use it alone, it will be under close inspection, so my plan of attack is to pay a large sum of money for something and slip the fake into the pile. Foolproof, right?

Smooooth

Asked my Chinese friend to talk to my old landlord, I smiled and kept my mouth shut, and she gave me back 2 of the 3 months rent I had already paid. Whose got 2 thumbs and now has only 1 apartment? THIS GUY