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Political capital of China

Asia Book Review

Although I enjoy books, I’m a glacially slow reader and in a normal year…
Beijing, China, Culture, History, Hong Kong, Japan, Shanghai 1st January 20214th September 2022 Comments 0 5 min read

Beijing Retrospective: 10 Years Later

2007 I landed in Beijing on January 29th, 2007 on my first trip to…
Beijing, China 10th July 201720th January 2022 Comment 1 4 min read

Traversing Jiankou Great Wall

Almost exactly 10 years after I first arrived in Beijing in 2007 I found myself…
Beijing, China, History, Outdoors 14th May 201713th August 2022 Comments 2 3 min read

1 in a Billion: China’s Human Flesh Search

A friend of mine, Cai Qing, was recently in Chaoyang Park (Beijing) when she…
Beijing, China, Culture, Film, Technology 9th November 201021st January 2022 Comment 1 2 min read

Hard Boiled Feng Shui

In my last post from Beijing (for now) we take a trip to a…
Architecture, Beijing, China, Travel 20th May 200914th January 2022 Comments 3 1 min read

Beijing 2009: Then and Now

Two years have passed since I spent three months in Beijing in 2007 and…
Beijing, China, History, Travel 14th May 200914th January 2022 Comments 17 3 min read

Olympic Birds Nest

For the first time since its completion, I finally had a chance to see…
Architecture, Beijing, China, Travel 12th May 200914th January 2022 Comment 1 1 min read

2 Minutes in Beijing

Below is a short video I put together from shots I took during my…
Beijing, China, Travel 10th May 200914th January 2022 Comments 3 1 min read

Exotic Street Food

Beijing, China, Food, Travel 8th May 200914th January 2022 Comments 3 1 min read

Flying Doraemon

Whilst studying Japanese at university in 2004 I wrote a post about a hugely…
Anime, Beijing, China, Shenzhen 24th April 200914th January 2022 Comment 1 1 min read

Spectacular

I only have one word to describe the opening ceremony to the Beijing 2008…
Beijing, China 8th August 200814th January 2022 Comments 3

Peking University Ruins

One of my most curious discoveries in Beijing came on my final day when…
Beijing, China, History, Photography, Travel 19th May 200814th January 2022 Comments 2 2 min read

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