Posts Tagged ‘travel’
Let me be clear.
On this blog I am chronicling a particular kind of experience. I hope to connect with people who have shared this experience, or who are interested in examining the ways that race comes up in conversations between strangers, distinguishing between what is “acceptable” and what is “objectionable”, and lastly, how a person can deal with [...]
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Tags: chinese, conversations, hong kong, japanese, strangers, travel
Signage win.
in the subway cars there are signs that read, “please give your seat to anyone in need”. according to the accompanying symbols, people in need include:
those who are pregnant
and those being mounted by midgets.
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Tags: hong kong, travel
No shortage of news.
I swear, the NYTimes can’t get enough of all the things going on in China these days; China is popping up in headlines across sections. And I feel like the tone of the coverage is not without a hint of incredulity and a smirk. I can’t keep up with it all myself. Imagine if I [...]
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Tags: art, china, chinese, controversy, diplomacy, taiwan, tibet, travel
I AM dis0riented.
The past two months have been utterly overstimulating. I went to China and never got around to blogging about it. Then a few weeks later I went to Toronto for a long weekend. It has just been a whirlwind of a time and I’ve been emotional and trying to feel settled, and writing has taken [...]
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Tags: malaise, travel
Ni hao, and how!
Off to Shanghai today, my mother’s motherland. It’s been 7 years since I last spent time there and I’m sure I’ll barely recognize anything. I’ve hardly processed that I’m going there, thanks to last week’s stomach flu and this week’s deluge of work.
I’ll take plenty of photos and hope to come back with trinkets and [...]
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Tags: china, chinese, shanghai, travel
