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Blogs have become wildly popular in China, and one of the more interesting is written by a woman who is married to a Chinese American guy—a physician– and lives in the United States. The blog is called “The Shadow in the Water,” and it’s popular because it basically compares and contrasts middle class life in [...]
From the New York Times, a fascinating story about a neighborhood in Queens where people have decided to learn Mandarin. The reason? To get along with the Chinese community. Last year I did a piece on the growing popularity of Mandarin. TIME reporters talked to students in London, Phnom Penh and Kentucky, among other places. [...]
I was in Hong Kong a couple of days ago. It was mainly a business trip but I also managed to hook up with a chef friend named Rolando Schuller who recently opened a new restaurant called Aspasia in a boutique hotel in Kowloon, the Luxe Manor on Kimberely Street. I headed over there on [...]
