Several weeks ago around 3:30 A.M. on November 11, protestors lit an electrical traffic control box on fired on Nathan Road in Mong Kok, H...

For a variety of reasons, on a number of occasions I have found it challenging to figure out the name of a road in China. Two of those reas...

Seen today outside a photography and graphic design studio in Jiangmen

The Wynn Palace casino resort opened last year in Cotai, Macau. Although the building's architecture may not impress as many people as ...

1. Photos of how some children in Sichuan province must commute to school remind me of nightmares I have had: Authorities in south-west ...

When I visited Apple's store in Xiamen, China, during its opening a few months ago , I saw there was no shining Apple logo visible from...

I often aim to capture "real life" moments in my photography. In those cases, ideally I would like the subjects in the photos to ...

In 2011 Zhuzhou became the first city in Hunan province to operate a public bicycle rental system. When I was in Zhuzhou a month or so ago...

The previous post about sculptures of string players and string instruments in Changsha mentioned that some people enjoyed having their ph...

The Hengxiang Bridge offers an excellent opportunity to appreciate Hengyang's "traffic culture" and the variety of vehicles u...

In addition to having more smokers than the entire population of the United States , China also has dangerously high levels of air pollutio...

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...

Best Buy opened its first store in China at the end of 2006 not long after it had acquired a majority interest in the Chinese electroni...

Laptops , smartphones , and  electronic Chinese-English dictionaries aren't the only mobile devices I have seen in Hengyang, China. At...

Admittedly, it was the name of a cafe on Changsheng Road in Hengyang, Hunan, which first caught my attention. But I have returned to ...

While walking through Causeway Bay in Hong Kong today, the young woman in the above photo approached me and handed me a red envelope. Gi...

When I upload a photo to Picasa it usually means I plan to use it soon in a blog post. But sometimes things don't go as planned. So to ...