It’s hard to ignore a story with the title 80,000 flee Shenzhen clampdown, even when the source is the Global Times (GT). What I learned, by digging a bit deeper, is that for two weeks in mid-August Shenzhen will be hosting the XXVI (26th) Summer Universiade, a multi-sports competition for international university athletes. (And, yes, there [...]
Entries from April 2011
More Bad Seeds
April 12th, 2011 · 4 Comments
Tags: Confucius · corruption
He’s (Still) Gone
April 9th, 2011 · 7 Comments
“We shall soon put aside some of the things we know well and be compelled to do things we don’t know well. This means difficulties. ” –Mao Zedong, 1949 On May 12, 2008 I was working at my home in Tianjin. At two in the afternoon I lay down to take a break, more rest [...]