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Providing a Home Away From Home for BJ's Jewish Community
by Inna Levinson (Great Expatations) On the sixth day of Sukkot, Jewish women from Israel, the United States and France gathered in a wooden hut in Beijing, feasted on kosher soup and danced together in celebration and commemoration of their ancestors. The hut, also known as a sukka, sits next to Beijing’s Chabat Lubavitch ... Read more » |
Eat, Drink, and Earn The Right to be Pompous and Insufferable!!!
by Jonathan Haagen (Great Expatations) Cheng County in rural Gansu Province is what is officially designated in China as a "poverty county", an area where residents make less than RMB650 per year. The county's already dire financial situation was worsened by last year's earthquake, which destroyed 11,000 homes and damaged nearly 50 ... Read more »
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Health clinic Beijing International S.O.S on connecting foreigners with the right health care in China
by Lily Kuo (Great Expatations) CW columnist gets the stories from foreign doctors taking care of expats in China The problem foreigners have with Chinese hospitals is not the level of treatment available. China has first-rate doctors and medicine. If you're getting major surgery China's not necessarily a bad place. The problem is the way this treatment is presented. In the West we rely on the general ... Read more »
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When do the Chinese plan to start planning?
by Michael Armstrong (Great Expatations) Why is it that most Chinese people and institutions have so much difficulty with planning ahead? Is it a deep-seated cultural difference or something that comes with modernization/ capitalization/ wealth/ whatever you want to call it? I believe that no claim, especially one so large as suggesting an entire nation ... Read more »
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And the next Chinese internet star is... me!
by Michael Armstrong (Great Expatations) My friend and his girlfriend pointed this out to me: My picture is all over the Chinese internet. A couple days ago I went to the Bird's Nest to try to buy a ticket to the handball semi-finals. I don't care about handball, but I had some free ... Read more » |
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What is (expat) Beijing’s ambition?
by Steven Lee (Great Expatations) Came across this interesting fimoculous.com post on this Paul Graham (venture capitalist, artist, techie and writer) article. The premise is that great cities attract a certain type of person and those people combine to exert a certain message. Examples include New York: you should make more money; Cambridge (Mass ... Read more » |
New York Is Better Than Beijing
by Michael Armstrong (Great Expatations) Alright, another question for all you out there. Beijing has a population of 8 million people. That's the same as New York City. (The Beijing municipal population is 17 million, but that includes all the people living in places like Miyun and Shunyi. You can count them if you ... Read more »
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Why Don't Expat Women Like Chinese Men?
by Michael Armstrong (Great Expatations) Yes, this is a sleazy survey. Yes, I don't expect to learn anything useful. On the other hand, I do expect to stir up some rancor. But sometimes the only thing that keeps me going is the rancor of strangers. Plus, I am stating my premises in a fair ... Read more »
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EDISON CHEN SEX SCANDAL (the links)
by Michael Armstrong (Great Expatations) Alright, I know this is low-class, but it deserves more than 254 words in the beginning of the national section of the magazine. This is the biggest sex scandal in the history of digital media. This is four times as big as Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee or Paris Hilton ... Read more »
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I Am a Ping Pong Ball Lost in a Sea of Beer
by Michael Armstrong (Great Expatations) The first place I ever played beer pong in Beijing was at the Rickshaw. It was May, a good four months before Pyro's tournaments started. I had just gotten back to China and was catching up with old friends, sort of sifting through them trying to remember who I ... Read more » |
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Floating (Uncut)
by Michael Armstrong (Great Expatations) The Great Expatations column is limited to 400-500 words. That's never as much as I'd like. This is the first of what will be occasional postings of uncut versions of the column. The published version of "Floating" came out on February 14th. Perhaps I'm egotistical, but I ... Read more » |
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I rode my bike
by Michael Armstrong (Great Expatations) to Carrefour to pick up some bread. As I chained it up outside the attendant at the bike parking lot, a stumpy middle-aged man wearing a grey hat with ear flaps waved in my direction. He walked over. His thick, white surgical mask couldn't hide the smile beaming from ... Read more »
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My Peeps Interview: Bread of Life Bakery
by Matt Schrader (Great Expatations) Recently we spoke with Keith and Cheryl Wyse of Bread of Life Bakery in Hebei Province. Click the "play button" to hear the audio version of the interview, or check out the transcript below. Apologies for the poor audio quality, we're still getting the kinks worked out of the ... Read more »
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Yabao Crew Diaries
by Matt Schrader (Great Expatations) This journal entry by Nikolai Chuvashov, one of the Russians mentioned in Sienna Parulis-Cook's Great Expatations column in Issue 2 of City Weekend, recounts his experience in Beijing. Many thanks to Inna Levinson for the translation from Russian China… you know, it’s not stinky! Sure I was at ... Read more » |
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