News of speed train derailment in Wenzhou travels fast
Weeks after the Wenzhou high-speed train collision, people in China are still angry. Online resentment and a more loose lipped state media are clear signs that there is a hunger from the people to know the truth, and an urge for journalists to start providing those truths.
It’s red. It’s juicy. Introducing the Yang-mei.
There's a sort of obsession going about town. It's June in Qingtian, on the south-east coast of China, and everyone is talking about yang-mei 杨梅: a round, sweet, dimpled fruit that ripens to a deep shade of brilliant red.
A trip to Yiwu: where 1/4 of the world’s drinking straws are made
This region of Zhejiang is famous for manufacturing little things: lightbulbs, pens, lamps, screw drivers, faucets, Q-tips. A quarter of the world's drinking straws are made in Yiwu. Here, I saw the littlest things marketed on the largest of scales.
Salt
There is widespread panic across China today - people are rushing to buy as much kitchen salt as they can. Stores are raising their prices to cash in on the frenzy, meanwhile consumers continue to buy in bulk.
Most. Disturbing. China Moment. Ever.
With one flick of his little thumb, the flame came on strong and steady, and the two-year-old child kept the cigarette in his mouth balanced perfectly over it. The cigarette lit up and the child starting puffing away. He grinned, looking up at his father, who grinned back at him.
So close I had to dodge the burning bits of ash coming down on me…
Here in China, everyone sets off their own fireworks from the streets, from their driveways, from bridges, and from their apartment balconies. In a town of densely-built apartments, the result is a fireworks show literally right before your eyes - so close, in fact, that you will have to shield your eyes with your hands...
2011, here I come
It was a busy and emotional year-end, with the death in the family cutting our Taiwan trip short. We traveled to Zhejiang post-funeral and spent a few days with family. Then, it was back to Hong Kong. Funny. One morning we were in a rural part of Zheijiang, where roosters crow and dart across roads...
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