Happening NOW – Google.CN seems to be scouring the Internet as any normal Google search engine should.
Meaning, you type in a few words and you’ll get whatever you are looking for. No strange message saying the website you are trying to seek is forbidden. No watching the cursor load and load and load and load… [...]
Someone asked me about what direction the blog will take in the coming year. You may have noticed the change of the banner, from a bubbling Sichuan hot pot to a beautiful night panorama of the Manhattan skyline taken from a Brooklyn pier.
You also may have noticed my last two posts have been about my [...]
Shanghai is going through a transformation. It’s not unlike the kind of makeover Beijing went through in the year leading up to the Olympics. But it appears Shanghai wants to ‘one up’ the capital – the city is reportedly spending way more than Beijing did with massive construction and city beautification projects going ahead full [...]
A Newsweek article this month criticizes Chinese language programs for foreigners in China, describing a money-grabbing program based on old fashioned Confucius-style teaching methods (i.e. ME, teacher, YOU underling student), outdated textbooks and an emphasis on memorizing characters as opposed to practical conversation skills.
False false false. I was one of the 100,000 foreigners to “flood” [...]
The latest headline to pop up in my Google page was a cute little article written in special English by the good people over at Xinhua.
The article, titled “Biased Xinjiang riot coverage refuted” takes issue with the Western media’s reporting on the riots that are erupting between Han and Uighurs in NW China.
In particular, Xinhua [...]
On July 5, 2008 – one year and old day ago – I fell down a cliff in SW China, in Yunnan’s Tiger Leaping Gorge. I fell a good five meters down a sandy, rocky mountain side and was stopped by the roots of a giant plant. Below me, hundreds of meters straight down below [...]
There is so much going on in China these days.
Hm. That sentence itself is way too general. Let’s try it again: China, through it’s imperial, communist, capitalist histories, has always been a fascinating place. Whether you’re a traveler, a journalist, a Chinese National or an expat this place is a world of entertainment, a place for [...]
Ohmy. News that 25 Canadian students have been quarantined in China. The students, on language exchange from the University of Montreal, were pulled aside after they landed in the city of 长春 Changchun, in the north-east province of Jilin. They have been placed in quarantine – with internet access – in a hotel where they [...]
It’s a cliche to say that time flies. But it really does. About a year ago, I was climbing China’s most beautiful mountain range – Yellow Mountain, known as 黄山 Huang Shan.
The first thing you notice about Yellow Mountain is that it looks like an old Chinese ink painting. Bonsai-like pine trees grow among its [...]
Last weekend, movie star Jackie Chan said something really stupid.
“I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled,” he said. “If we are not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.”
Chan made the dumbass comments during the Boao Forum, an annual economic conference held on Hainan Island in the South China [...]
Suzanne Ma is a journalist in New York City. She is a multimedia reporter and producer for DNAinfo.
She is the recipient of a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship for 2009-2011.
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