insidious pessimism

You know all that stuff you read and hear about in Chinese history about natural disasters and plagues and similar things being seen as bad omens for the regime? Yeah, I’m starting to wonder. As I have been for a while now, but still, this gnawing grows…

tilting at windmills

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wangbo

wangbo

A Kiwi teaching English to oil workers in Beijing, studying Chinese in my spare time, married to a beautiful Beijing lass, consuming vast quantities of green tea (usually Xihu Longjing/西湖龙井, if that means anything to you), eating good food (except for when I cook), missing good Kiwi ale, breathing smog, generally living as best I can outside Godzone and having a good time of it.

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