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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

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

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

Dance Dance Robotlution

Posted from: Beijing Look, I hate to be the one to burst your tiny ethnocentric, Sinopheliac bubble, but after the first three months of...

Life

Blowing Fuses

Posted from: Beijing, China Just because I, in pasta-sauce-stained sweatpants, blew all the fuses in a three-block radius with a pair of...

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Summary Destruction

Posted from: Beijing I don’t really understand what’s happening. Russel pointed out once – and yeah, ok, this has probably been...

Life

Remembering and Not Forgetting

Posted from: Beijing Everything is strange. I have been wondering if the fact that I don’t like reading mothers’ blogs makes me...