Author: Kendra

China Beijing Expat Blog: Prositution in Beijing

Life

Adventures in Prostitution, or: I’m definitely going back for those dumplings

Posted from: Beijing Javi and I got medicinal foot massages from the prostitutes at the bargain brothel down the street from my house. I...

Travel

Hong Kong: Where the Money Meets the Road

Posted from: Hong Kong Hong Kong is a never-ending commercial paradise of pristine luxury goods, tiny cakes, delicate food and refined,...

Travel

Ruminations on Chinese Noms

Posted from: Beijing The staff of Seven Treasures Pond, our local Buddhist vegetarian restaurant, greeted us with such enthusiasm us that...

Life

Welcoming the Year of the Dragon

Posted from: Beijing This is my fourth lunar new years in China, and I really did try not to get so swept up in the revelry that photos...

Life

Spicy Duck Tablets and the Blue-Headed Man

Posted from: Beijing During the last three days of 2011, my sole purpose in life was to wait for my furniture to arrive, while...

Tech

Breaking News: People who can’t attach photos to email are legislating about the internet

Posted from: Beijing After several years spent with a picket sign in one hand and a brick in the other, these days my political platform...

Tech

TaoBao Christmas Miracles: Surviving the Chinese Ecommerce User Experience Apocolypse

Posted from: Beijing I spent the better part of Christmas Eve morning sitting in an empty concession stand outside of Solana shopping...

Travel

Last Rites in Columbia, First Rites and Guanxi in Beijing

Posted from: Beijing In my final days in South Carolina, faced with an empty house and no internet, I actually bought a jigsaw puzzle. The...

Life

Artifacts of the Excavation: Exhibits from a Minimalist Lifestyle

This post is dedicated to Rusty Farrell, CEO at Truematter, who told me several months ago that he “appreciates my minimalist...

Tech

Swiss Retro Ecommerce Web Elements set for Smashing Magazine, or: Trials, Tribulations and the Pixel Grid

Posted from: South Carolina I was just recently asked to design an ecommerce icon set for Smashing Magazine and after a several week long...