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Ich Bin Ein Amerikaner
by Tony ComstockPrompted by last week's posts from Andrew Sprung about President Kennedy and Chuck Spinney on President Obama. No word on when Pamplemousse is going to release their cover version. Tony...
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The Writing on the Wall: China's Implicit Communication
by Brian Glucroft Pizza Delivery Numbers?I've singled out the photo above, taken from the Xiapu, Fujian post, because it's received more questions from readers than any other. Everyone wants to know...
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Bike Commute Numero Uno
By Lizzy Bennett After I posted my bike commuting tips, several people have confessed that they'd love to ride but they can't; they're terrified. "Is it safe?" they ask. I remember telling the friend...
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Is That a Boiled Frog in Your Pocket? Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
by Tony Comstock"I'm not waging a crusade here any more. Just noting the persistence of a cliche." -- James Fallows, It Never Ends: The Boiling FrogsIn her article "Hard Core: The new world of porn is...
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Watching the Pyramids From Inside the Great Wall
by Ella ChouAs Mubarak steps down in the midst of jubilation, Beijing is fretting in its sleep. It has done everything it could to damp down the information: it has censored the web, banned search...
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How Does China Feed So Many People?
By Ella ChouThe short answer is that in the absence of large, mechanized, American-style corporate supply lines, most of China is fed by a massive, poorly supervised but surprisingly effective network...
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The Price of Pleasure, Part 2
by Tony Comstock"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." -- Muhammad Ali, Heavyweight Boxing ChampionIn October of 1980, I suffered a concussion...
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Google, China, and Chinese College Students - Part II
[Previous post for this series: Part I]Across China, many college students had no awareness that there were any tensions between Google and the Chinese government.Many other students were aware of the...
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Can Social Make Kids (Want to) Cook?
By Lizzy Bennett A friend recently shared this site with me, and I'm hooked. I like foodily for a lot of reasons. It's search-based with a fresh but familiar UI. It allows you to exclude things from...
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Fugues
By Brian GlucroftAfter all of my posts related to my interest in China, technology, etc, I'd like to share a little about another passion of mine -- music.As alluded to in my blog's name, I like to use...
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Personal Moments of Internet Victory
by Lizzy Bennett We all have one. A moment of personal Internet victory. Mine involves online shopping (shocker). I first set my sights on my goal two years ago, during lunch at Farina in San...
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Google, China, and Chinese College Students - Part III
By Brian Glucroft[Previous posts for this series: Part I; Part II. Also see correction below.]A speech which was seen by many in the US as a strong step in the right direction or even as not strong...
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Sex, Law, and Cinema in the Digital Age (1989-2010)
By Tony ComstockOkay, this is a big long info-dump as a post, and as I warned earlier, I am too close to the events of the last decade, both temporally and emotionally to claim any sort of objective...
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The Torch is Passed: Welcome Bernstein, Goldstick, Ma, Sedgwick
It's hard to know where to start in acknowledging the efforts of this past week's crew of guest bloggers. They covered a tremendous range of topics -- from an incredible scene on the beach in Holland...
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Kludges, Adaptations, and Evolution
By Tony Comstock"Next year, or the year after, or...." James Fallows, In My Other Life, January 7, 2011Not too many weeks into the first grade it was decided I would be better off in second grade. I...
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The Twitter Revolution Debate Is Dead
by Ella Chou The debate about the role of digital social media in social movements is brought to a new height with events in Tunisia and Egypt. Chinese netizens also labeled the success of the Egyptian...
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Thanks and Some More Scenes from Yulin
by Brian GlucroftIt's been incredible to be a guest here and I've learned much from my first experience at blogging. I really enjoyed trying to use different methods to express myself. For example,...
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Why I Don't Blog, Tweet, or Facebook
By Edward GoldstickGreetings. I begin this experience with some trepidation, to be honest; as our host indicated last night, I have been writing to Jim Fallows for a number of years and have...
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Finally Official: China Takes the #2 Spot
by Damien MaJapan has confirmed it. China indeed emerged from 2010 as the world's second largest economy after the United States, at $5.88 trillion to Japan's $5.47 trillion. (In case you're wondering,...
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Another Message From Your Host: 'The Pentagon Labyrinth'
I am glad to see the new week's guest team off to a strong start. Before leaving the stage fully to them (and getting on the flight to Beijing), a few matters that won't properly keep until I resume...
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