Today I found myself marveling at a blueish sky in Beijing. A view of the sky from the Dongsi Mosque Although the air was " unh...

At Beijing's Tiananmen Square between 5:00 and 6:00 p.m. today, whether it was tourists posing for photographs or the " very unhea...

After departing Qingdao , I headed to the city where I would spend today's Dragon Boat Festival holiday. When I arrived at Beijing Sout...

I saw a notable example in Qingdao, China, of people disregarding barriers . However, sometimes it isn't the ineffectiveness of barrier...

Earlier, I posted about the collapsed portion of a pier in Qingdao and a young man's comment about the numerous people ignoring its ba...

Close to  Qingdao's Taidong Pedestrian Street and across from the Walmart there is Caishi 2nd Road (菜市二路). In the afternoon vendors se...

I've seen some foreigners who are knowledgable about China express their aversion to photos that explicitly capture the country's p...

Like last year in Xining and two years ago in Chengdu , most of what I saw as I walked around Qingdao on this June 4th was the same as ...

A week ago a section of the pier to Qingdao's Huilan Pavilion collapsed . Several days ago I saw that the collapsed section had been fi...

This is how you get 2 jins of unpasteurized beer to go in Qingdao, China. Another part of Qingdao's beer culture Straws availab...

Three months ago I stared out the window of a bus as I returned to Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh. About 40 minutes outside of Phnom Pe...

Many Chinese cities have at least one large pedestrian shopping street with ample space for people to walk around. Although the streets can...