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Mike and I hunched our shoulders and sped into the tunnel that led to the underground mall to seek refuge from the bitter Beijing cold. I r...

I have a legit neck phobia. Ever since I was a little kid, I have always been convinced that I will be murdered getting pierced through the...

For a client lunch recently, I was led to a themed restaurant in a chic part of downtown Shen Zhen. The restaurant  Da Lang Wo (Big Wolf La...

I knew this day would come eventually. I just didn't expect that it would happen so soon. Virtually within one day of finding out she...

Back when harlem shake was all the craze, my boss thought it would be funny to make our own as an inside joke and send it to our board.  ...

"Hi, I'm Sisi. I ate lunch every day in high school with Arusha. Congrats on marrying such a fantastic girl!" I met the g...

The thing about being an adult is that you get to take business trips. The thing about being a kid still is that you can gush about your fir...

Some call it spineless. Others call it whipped. Here, we just call it financial planning. As far as I can tell, it is pretty miserable to ...

We hopped onto a tuk tuk and headed down a dusty road, zipping by houses on stilts, to search for the Floating Village. And after driving on...

"So what's the difference between Thai and Khmer (Cambodian) massage?" Pausing every two words in her pieced together English,...

One of the guys on my team, Sam, is a Communist Party member in excellent standing. So excellent that we've already had to give him thre...

Written on July 22nd, 2010. An email I wrote home while on my internship at the US Embassy in Beijing. My dating experience in China this ti...

My mom took me to the Chinese herbal doctor yesterday. We sat on the cold metal chairs for two hours until we realized that we could see a l...

My three friends and I squeezed onto the train, waving our tickets above our heads to part the sea of sweaty bodies standing in the aisle, w...

While J was back in the States hugging the red white and blue flag to replenish his American juices, a history major, a halfie, and an As...

Freshman year. First semester. PL SC 170 - Intro to International Politics. It was our Communism unit. Somebody asked what it was. Somebod...

1 am. Doha airport. Waiting to board a flight back to Shanghai. Around 80 travelers, mostly Chinese people who escaped obligatory family r...

I was going to tell you a story of a battle with my mom where I had fought hard, ultimately won, and constantly regretted. But instead, I...

One of my colleagues who was in charge of getting deals for our online purchasing program (think groupon style shopping cart with discounte...

The bachelors in China are panicking. By 2030, there will be at least 30 million more men than women in this country because of the female i...