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An Orwellian Bus Tour from Shanghai to Beijing

An Orwellian Bus Tour from Shanghai to Beijing

May 7, 2020
by Ira Friedberg
Yarns

The savannah has been drained of life. Its blooming grasslands have shrivelled and are bleached. The great beast pants, searching for the blanketing comforts of…

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The Lion Rock Spirit: Why I’m Proud to Be a Hong Konger

The Lion Rock Spirit: Why I’m Proud to Be a Hong Konger

August 21, 2019
by Gloria Lau
Current Affairs, Features

“I used my backpack to shield a young girl from the police’s rubber bullets, because she was about to get hit and for sure she…

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When in China, Take the Slow Train

When in China, Take the Slow Train

May 26, 2019
by Oliver Lees
China Yarns, Yarns

I had only the frigid  Beijing air and my large suitcase for company as I waited for the 7.30 train to Chongqing. 30 hours and…

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Dragonfruit

Dragonfruit

May 2, 2019
by Dean Kerrison
Yarns

Around the pool table in a Chengdu hostel, a girl eating a massive dragonfruit introduces herself as Yumiko. The fruit is cheaper here compared to…

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Bruiseberries

Bruiseberries

November 14, 2018
by Dean Kerrison
China Yarns, Yarns

A nightclub in Chengdu. The floor vibrates. My legs jiggle like jackhammers. The Chinese promoter Catherine dispenses more Jäger like medication to us three outsiders….

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Working in Asia: Real Life on "Easy" Mode?

Working in Asia: Real Life on “Easy” Mode?

February 18, 2018
by Kim Koelmeyer
Features

“14-hour work week, why would I ever want to leave this glorious life? *crying laughing emoji*” I met this guy on Tinder, and this is…

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Let's Get This Straight: I'm Bi

Let’s Get This Straight: I’m Bi

August 7, 2017
by Kim Koelmeyer
Features

“Do you have a boyfriend?” they ask me in Chinese, because you’re always assumed straight until proven otherwise. Like me, this could go two ways….

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A Journey Through Islamic China

A Journey Through Islamic China

June 29, 2017
by Frances Vinall
Features

I’ve been on this train for 28 hours and have spent countless more jolting across train tracks on previous legs of this 4,389-kilometre overland journey….

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Day Out at The Kingdom of Little People

Day Out at The Kingdom of Little People

May 8, 2017
by Mel Melville
China Yarns, Yarns

Just outside of Kunming city, in the beautiful state of Yunnan in China, there lays an amusement park run by people with dwarfism: The Kingdom…

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Retaining Your Optimism In the Back of a Chinese Police Car

Retaining Your Optimism In the Back of a Chinese Police Car

September 14, 2016
by Sam Howard
Yarns

The Chinese policeman opened the door and gestured for me to get inside the vehicle. It was a chilly day in Xi’an and as I…

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Love and Other Bugs

Love and Other Bugs

June 6, 2016
by Pat Boxall
Yarns

China is a confusing place, an ecosystem of pure juxtaposition. Hauntingly beautiful one minute, yet infuriating the next, my mind was often clouded. But you…

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Beijing: Heaven Supermarket

Beijing: Heaven Supermarket

May 30, 2016
by Sam Howard
Beijing Do

Get There: 14 Xindong Lu, next to The James Joyce, Chaoyang District Open: 11am – 4am Monday to Saturday; 11am – 12am Sunday As well…

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