It’s amazing how winter in most Chinese cities cancels out the sun. The skies seem to turn gray across the board, from Jiangxi to Sichuan and Guangxi to Harbin. Only a few pockets of sunshine are immune to the meteorological oddity known as “China Winter” and I am in one of them now, the tiny Bai […]
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Horse & Tea Trade Route
I’ve been up and down this road and written a few things about it — the road that links India and Southeast Asia with southwest China and Tibet. Here are links to the stories I have written and also a lil slideshow to boot: Yunnan, yonis, Sichuan & ponies Shaxi Town The Horse and Tea […]
this could have been anyone of us
In this story right here, I find a very familiar young man: went to evergreen and became slightly radicalized. got a girlfriend and did what he thought was best — take action instead of talk. got caught and ran for his life to Dali, a place i know well. ran around the town and got […]