Given that I have some pretty strong allegiances to a number of Duke administrators, I may need to self-censor down the line if this story turns a LAX-brand-of-sour, but until then...

During the height of the protests or riots (depending on what side of that shibboleth you fall) in Tibet ... Read more »

This is a little bit late, but I wanted to hold my tongue in case I had been duped by those April Fool's crazy Internet police mascots, Jingjing and Chacha...

But, it has been more than a week, so I feel comfortable at least expressing my pleasure at some ... Read more »

Oh my god! There is an elephant in this room!

In the wake of huge protests in Paris that forced the Olympic Torch to be extinguished several times, and, more recently, protests at the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, it appears as if the torch relay is getting off ... Read more »

Trying to be a print journalist at the moment is sufficiently uncertain that declaring yourself as one tends to draw the same looks of concern as, say, majoring in dance at Sarah Lawrence. The transition in journalism has been well documented on Gawker, which has reported on a rash of ... Read more »

Just when I was starting to get a little bit too much work done, life got back to the way it should be.

Sometime yesterday, Youtube came back on. Very shortly after that, I became less concerned with filing a story on pricing segmentation, and much more on finding what ... Read more »

I am desolated and distraught. All that I one knew to be good and true in the world has been destroyed.

Long ago, long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot ... Read more »

Well, we got a few more upsets on the second day with the 4 and 5 seeds all falling. Today also saw the best individual performance of the tournament from Davidson's Stephen Curry who scored 40 points in a win over Gonzaga (Honestly, it is amazing that Curry was ... Read more »

The first day of March Madness has come to a close. There were no great upsets other than perhaps the great ego that is OJ Mayo falling to the slightly less great ego that is Michael Beasley. The big story of day one is how the once mighty Blue Devils ... Read more »

Recent reports from Reuters say that China has overtaken the US as the world's top Web market.

http://www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSSHA29750720080313

At the end of 2007, the China Internet Network Information Center claimed that China's population of Internet users totaled 210 million.

"Based on these ... Read more »

When an otherwise non-masochistic writer takes up the post of blogger columnist at City Weekend, he is wont to encounter a number of unforeseen indignities. From the often-hilarious claims of douchiness from the That’s Beijing’s forums to the photographic proof of that douchiness courtesy of City Weekend’s ... Read more »

For everyone reading this, we have already established that you have access to a computer and the wherewithal to access the inter-web, so I would love your insights on an upcoming project that may make use of your striking techno-savvy.

Next week, I will be speaking with my fellow "world-leading ... Read more »

Handball, or shouqiu in Chinese. This isn't the handball I learned in high school gym class, this is a combination of soccer and basketball and I had never even heard of it before I saw a primer on it on a bus this morning. Imagine a basketball game where ... Read more »

CNN has reported that back in 1973, during trade talks between Mao Zedong and then Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the Chairman offered to send 10 million Chinese women to the United States

"You know, China is a very poor country," Mao is reported as saying. "We don't have ... Read more »

Far be it from me to tell you who you should have contempt for, but allow me a brief moment to let you know who makes my list. Right at the top are people who spent their junior semester abroad in Central America, and, upon their return, started referring to ... Read more »

When I first came to China to teach in Shenyang, my students asked a lot of questions about how they could display proper etiquette in the West. At the time I offered a series of not-so-insightful pieces of advice like "don't spit on the floor" and "don't push ... Read more »

I recently wrote a column on Internet notoriety, and how it represents a form of celebrity we haven't really seen before (http://www.cityweekend.com.cn/beijing/articles/cw-magazine/blogger/notorious-20/)

. In the article, I mentioned a poster on the That's Beijing (thebeijinger?) forums who had, when I ... Read more »