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Monthly Archives: July 2006

Visitors

Monday, July 31, 2006

My parents were in town for the past two weeks, so I got to show them the sights of Beijing. It was pretty gray and wet most of time, so we spent a lot of long afternoons lingering over lunch and ordering second and third cups of coffee. We managed to get out to Hong [...]

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Best friends

Monday, July 31, 2006

I saw the old man approaching and assumed, from experience, that he would be hitting me up for a few kuai. But not tonight. As he drew closer he reached into his back pocket, pulled out his wallet and carefully combed through a cache of folded papers.
“From Germany?” he asked.
“Meiguo,” I replied.
Excitedly, he unfolded [...]

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No Cotton Candy

Sunday, July 16, 2006

When Simon told me that there was a fair going on this weekend out in the Shijingshan District on the far west side of the city, I knew I’d better bring my camera. After a 45 minute ride on the the AC-free subway to Babaoshan we were all a bit hot and hungry. To my [...]

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Chaoyang Liquor Factory

Sunday, July 9, 2006

On the northern edge of Beijing, between the 4th and 5th ring roads, a cluster of art galleries has sprung up on the grounds of a former liquor factory. It took our cabbie about 10 minutes on the phone with a gallery owner to figure out where the site actually is, but once that was [...]

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Dalian

Sunday, July 9, 2006

We spent last weekend in Dalian, a “small” coastal city of 6 million. Dalian is known for its faux-European architecture, shipping industry, seafood and cleanliness. It’s also a popular summer destination for well-healed Chinese, Korean and Japanese vacationers, due to its geographic proximity to all 3 nations. The impetus for the trip was an Ogilvy-sponsored [...]

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