• suck dust machine

    From an overheard conversation in an elevator, I couldn't pick out one word - 吸尘器 (xī chén qì) and it started to stick in my mind. The girl was talking ...

    posted on 10 Jun 10 | 1 comments

  • baby palace

    Young Chinese children, at a tender young age, might venture to ask their parents where babies come from. If you grew up in the West, you might have been told ...

    posted on 10 Apr 10

  • speak clear book

    China's language is littered with poetic metaphors and flowery descriptive words, but dig deep into Chinese culture and you'll find an almost slavish devotion to technical perfection. No, we're not ...

    posted on 01 Apr 10

  • pretty person fish

    In Western mythology, many a hero was ensnared by a beautiful creature of the sea - half fish, half woman, the hapless sailor or adventurer was enticed into the unknown ...

    posted on 19 Jan 10 | 2 comments

  • amputate thing hand

    The news of Akmal Sheikh's execution has spread far and wide across the internet (although strangely, not so widely in the Chinese internet...), and many people are discussing the rights ...

    posted on 04 Jan 10