ramblings of an expat Kiwi living in one small corner of Beijing

bollocks

So now France has also been targeted by Chinese hackers. [yawn] So what? Are we

Aug 2, 2007 wangbo

Is that a two-stroke dirt bike or a chainsaw I can hear outside? Well, considering

I don’t know how this happened, but it seems the laws of thermodynamics are under

So some bright spark has designed a computer programme to test people’s Mandarin proficiency. Apparently

May 19, 2007 wangbo

Another birthday. I’m 31 today. I’ve told lzh that she absolutely must not under any

I’ve always felt, since the day I escaped Tianjin, that there’s something a little odd

May 12, 2007 wangbo

Humour, in my experience, is pretty hard, if not impossible to translate. But still, there

So yesterday I mentioned finding an article explaining how Peking became Beijing. At the time,

Mar 24, 2007 wangbo

So this article is the usual article about the gender imbalance in Asia, all the