I am working on a post about the opening of a new shopping mall in Yulin, Guangxi, which speaks to a variety of issues in China. While I do...

Regarding the tale of my problems uploading photos and such , all is much better now. A change of location did the trick. After easily conn...

My uploading / VPN woes continue. By this time tomorrow, I hope to be somewhere where I don't need to walk to an elevator lobby and st...

Fives days ago I wrote: I had planned on sharing so much more this week, both in terms of photos and thoughts. And I have more than enou...

Yesterday I spent a lot of time troubleshooting why sometimes websites loaded at decent speeds yet I couldn't upload anything. As I am ...

Two years ago I shared photos which included dragonflies making unexpected appearances: one in Zhuhai and another in Changsha . Today I ha...

Two years ago in Zhongshan, Guangdong, I saw a sale for International Women's Day at War Ground — a military-themed clothing retailer....

Some longtime readers will remember the days when there was a more explicit tech focus here, and I hope to soon return to some old themes. ...

A view outside the window where until yesterday I recently stayed in Zhongshan, Guangdong: A view outside the window where I am stayi...

Where there was a temporary Tiananmen memorial in Hong Kong earlier this week, today the pedestrian area was back to its usual state. ...

The above sign currently appears near a newsstand at the Tsim Sha Tsui Star Ferry Pier in Hong Kong. It caught my eye since since The Ne...

In addition to other topics, I plan a return to some China tech-related themes here. For a starter, I'll share assorted excerpts of fou...

Yesterday, I saw Bill Bishop's photo of Beijing: Can you find the 330m tall skyscraper 2 blocks away? The view from my beijing ap...

Now seems like a good time for some assorted links. Here we go: 1. One man dreams of a salaried job. Another man never wants one again. T...

Recently GreatFire.org reported the increased blocking of Google's services . As described by Dan Levin in The New York Times : The...

In previous years, I have documented some of the impact of China's Great Firewall , which selectively blocks or interferes with website...

A timeout for blog-related technical issues: For some readers, embedded tweets from Twitter may not appear as intended and lose some of t...

I have not be able to post here for a few days due to significant problems in using my VPN. Without a properly functioning VPN, I am at the...

Yesterday I pushed back against Caitlin Dewey's claims in the blog post "Wikipedia largely alone in defying Chinese self-censorsh...

In the  WorldViews blog post " Wikipedia largely alone in defying Chinese self-censorship demands ", Caitlin Dewey makes several...