Recently a good member (I consider all Canadians to be good members) posted a forum thread entitled "Travel for a Canadian to China". I wrote everything below as a comment, then thought "What the hey, I don't have much time to write my blogs anymore, so why not post this as a blog instead". I suggest you visit the thread and then come back for my response on China travel. I'm sure there'll also be a number of other comments of equal or greater value than mine from some of the other Expats in China who hang out on CLM, so you should check back on the thread and the comments here occasionally if you too intend to travel to China.. Read more…

三月二十四日，星期日，多云——大余湾，黄陂，PMP俱乐部 Read more…

三月八——十日，晴——珠海、广州，女人节 Read more…

Erin is there to greet me at the arrivals section of the Shanghai Airport. She is wearing a long, blue nylon winter coat with a hood that has fake fur around it and dragging behind her a pink hardshell suitcase that is almost as big as she is. Read more…

Where were we? Oh yes, on the island of Putuo Shan, one of the four Buddhist mountains and a well-known destination for China travel. As you may recall, I had grown rather disenchanted with what I saw as the level of spiritual hypocrisy on this allegedly Buddhist island, culminating in the cold-blooded murder at a restaurant of a cold-blooded fish right before my eyes. The values I associated with Buddhism seemed nowhere in evidence here. Read more…