Man Man Zou

I’m sick with a common cold right now, but it’s absolutely wonderful. I’m on the last night of a 3-night cruise down the Yangtzi River from Chongqing to the Three Gorges Dam. We traveled first class on a Chinese-tourist class boat, which means we had our own room with a very nice view [...]

On being blocked:
All blogspot and typepad sites are blocked. Google news is blocked, BBC news is blocked, BUT, the Taipei Times newspaper is not blocked! That’s a typically ‘green/pro-Taiwan independence’ newspaper. You can read editorials on there all about how China needs to smarten up, and it’s not blocked. No other [...]

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After being in China for 24 hours, I can already say that:
a) I used a washroom with knee-high walls and no doors
b) I saw a dog carcass be chopped up and prepared for dinner
c) I showered using only a bucket
I wasn’t bothered by any of the above, but they were all things that I
was thinking [...]