Welcome to my 2008 Beijing Olympics ten-year flashback series. The authorities spent a great deal of energy encouraging citizens to put their best foot forward. How successful were they? My results from a one-hour non-scientific study. [Originally posted […]
No Beijing Olympic Flashback series would be complete without covering the media’s obsession with a food that is about as common to the average Beijinger as sea cucumber is to New Yorkers: scorpions on a […]
Ten years ago today, the one-week countdown for the 2008 Beijing Olympics began. The opening ceremony on August 8 would double as a coming out party for China and capture the world’s attention, for the breathtaking […]
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