Slums of Shaolin

Far too long ago, I wrote an update about visiting the really-quite-impressive Buddha statues of Leshan and Jiajiang . Really, the Big Budd...

I love talking bad about the foreigner food in Shanghai. That’s just what I do. OK, the food has it coming; it’s none of it very good, and...

Blogger and Blogspot are still blocked within China, which really should motivate me to transfer this entire blog over to a private server, ...

The International Post Office is the Volvo of Shanghai's colonial architecture: boxy but good. While it's actually a very large and...

The Shanghai Arts and Crafts Museum is another tourist-oriented place that I think is worth dropping by, even for those who live in this fai...

I've long wanted to visit Sichuan, if for no other reason than because I have a number of friends from the area, and they kept talking i...