January 2012
4 posts
The People's Person: Bored Afterschool Kid
The People’s Republic of China is a nation of 1.6 billion people. Let’s honor the misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The ones who hang their laundry where they damn please. The People’s Person.
Kids do the darndest things when class is out. Especially when their faces aren’t buried in homework at an afterschool program or when there aren’t any local gangs to...
The Meaning of Dumplings, Explosions, and...
These are bamboo shoots. At least that’s what the lady at the supermarket told me. So I bought two, along with many other ingredients, for the dumplings my roommates and I were planning to make. It’s Chinese New Years after all. We had no problem preparing the other ingredients; mincing cabbage, garlic, ginger, green onions, and cucumbers were a cinch. But THIS, these bamboo...
Jiuzhaigou
It’s 6am and the rooster’s crow jolts me out of sleep. I must be very far away from home.
I’m in Jiuzhaigou, Valley of the Nine Ancient Tibetan Villages.
But let me explain how I got here. I flew from San Francisco to Seoul to Shanghai to Chongqing, where my sister Maggie and I got swindled by a cabbie. We then took a full day’s worth of cramped bus rides from Chongqing to Chengdu and...