I had not planned on taking off several days from blogging and the online world outside China's Great Firewall. I had also not planned ...

Posting will be light as the year closes. In that spirit, a sunset in Xiamen: A view from halfway up to (or down from) Wulao Peak

Today at Qipu Lu in Shanghai I had planned to be blogging quite a bit more the past week or so since returning to China. Plans . . . ...

Authentic American-Chinese shopping center food for sale in Texas Yet another visit to the U.S. is complete. I have returned to China ...

At an under-construction (and now possibly open) establishment at the Shuiwan Bar Street in Zhuhai More is coming soon here too . . .

There was a time not long ago when I thought I would have two posts ready for today. I suppose the previous sentence already implies that I...

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

I planned to post something I had expected to be delightfully simple before moving onto more delightfully complex matters. But the post tur...

Over a month ago I arrived in Hengyang, Hunan. Intersection of Chuanshan Avenue and Zhengyang North Road in Hengyang And almost exa...

On a recent overnight train from Hong Kong to Shanghai, this was my dinner: Bought for 25 RMB (about US $4) from a train crew member p...

In one of these buildings today, I enjoyed some rather tasty fish with garlic sauce, and I wasn't even at a restaurant. When I fir...

My trip to the US has pulled me away from blogging more than I had expected. I hope to have things back up to speed in the near future. Nan...

In Hengyang, Hunan province If you are wondering " wassup ", despite the content of my most recent posts, I am not now in ei...

Here are two people sitting at an outdoor cafe in the middle of a pedestrian shopping street in Zhanjiang's Xiashan district: On a...

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...

In Wong Tai Sin, Hong Kong That's all for this week. I expect to be posting more frequently next week with topics ranging from onl...

There's much to learn in this fascinating world, and lately I have been doing a lot of what this man in Beijing was doing a few days ag...

Yesterday, I made another unexpected connection when I was at Seoul Plaza in Seoul, South Korea. While there I was reminded of my vi...