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Attendance is Futile
Working for a Chinese company provides just as rich a seam of unexpected experiences as any other aspect of life here.
Trashing the Fun
I have been engaged in a standoff with some partying young people who live in my residential compound for over a year.
Struck by Spring
Spring finally arrived in Beijing after the generation-long winter the capital endures, in which people are born, get married and vegetate into middle age in the months between the last warm autumn day and the first warm day of spring.
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The Village Terror
My new exercise program has helped me lose weight, made me irresistible to women, improved my relationship with my fiancée, and gets me out of the house twice a day, rain or shine. I call it the “Walk The Alaskan Malamute Or It Will Destroy The House” program.
Cold War over Refrigerator
It was bad enough that her daughter was marrying a professional banjo player who did not own his own flat or car. It was untenable that her daughter was living without a refrigerator
Near Catastrophe
A middle-aged police officer decided not to wait for high-tech equipment, like a safe ladder, and scrambled up in his loafers, followed by a firefighter. “Nothing here,” they exclaimed. It was pretty embarrassing. They left