Days 15-26 – Pollution, street food, deadlines, Hong Kong and crossing the road in China

February 5, 2010 by whit · 2 Comments 

Our founder, Mike Bellamy, who evidently doesn’t have enough WORK TO DO posted the Rick Roll the other day under my name.  That was his hint that I should blog more often, so here goes.  Sorry for the Rick Roll.  Sorry for the absence.  And sorry in advance for the length of this post.
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Day 14

January 19, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment 

Day 14 – Tuesday – Some interesting China article links to kick things off:

Daring blogger tests the limits
Article with some interesting graphs on Chinese military spending
Article on Google
Power rationing in China
Why America and China Will Clash
Avatar banned in China
chinaSMACK – this is an awesome news aggregation site sent to me by Dave Learn – a [...]

Days 6-13 – Shanghai Hooters, Mao’s Revenge, and rotten cell phone companies

January 18, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment 

Day 6 – Woke to steady rain after a fitful sleep.  The Chinese believe in sleeping on hard beds, as it is supposed to be good for you.  And when I say hard, I mean sheet of plywood hard.  And how having your hips so sore you can barely get out of the bed in [...]

They levelled the playing field

October 21, 2009 by whit · Leave a Comment 

There has been lots of ink lately about Mao the “political philosopher”.  I won’t get into that other than to say that if any one person deserves credit for China’s economic transformation over the last 30 years, it is Deng Xiao Ping, not Mao.
It was either Mr. China or China Road (both wonderful books) that [...]