This little blog will be on hiatus for a few weeks, although I hope to squeeze in Part 3 of “Hot Water in China? Don’t Get Burned”- hopefully none of my readers will get arrested in China between now and then. I leave you with a few favorites and recommendations: My Favorite China Blogs: ChinaBizGov, [...]

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When I first came across Xujun Eberlein’s bio, I could not help but wonder what would propel a PhD from MIT to trade algorithms in for writing. It was not until I read her book, Apologies Forthcoming, that I understood. Author Pamela Erens describes Xujun’s latest fiction as “intimate, melancholy, comic, sensuous… Social history informs [...]

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