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.


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Baby Blue

Is it artistic, or a sad state of affairs when social media gets flooded with pictures of a blue sky because it hasn’t been blue in ages?  

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Sky

Finally cloudy and not smoggy. Not excited for winter when all the central heating (run on coal) kicks on  

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