China Segment

The other night I was teaching at a company whose offices are on the 9th floor of a building. We finished up at around 7:30 pm. This being a formerly state-owned company, everyone had long since cleared out and gone home. Likewise for most of the other offices in that building except [...]

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I may live to regret writing this, but I’m calling out the police of Shanghai, of all China. Everyday more people needlessly die in this country because the police do not enforce the law. Traffic accidents are easily preventable, yet they do nothing. Cars, motorcycles and pedestrians break laws right in front [...]

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Well it is simply shocking. Five+ years in Shanghai and only yesterday did I experience my first car crash. It was more of a fender bender actually. I’m fine, the taxi driver was fine and so was the other driver… who pulled a real stupid move to put us in that mess. [...]

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If you’re in an older part of Shanghai and trouble strikes, better hoof it to a hospital. Calling an ambulance might just be what kills you.
I was wandering the streets - as I often do - the other evening and ended up around some night markets between Fuxing Road (复兴路) and Yu Garden (豫园). [...]

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With all due respect to the deceased, there are proper ways to remember and there are improper ways to remember. What I witnessed the other night certainly qualifies for the latter category.
When getting out of the elevator as I was going to my in-laws’ new apartment for dinner, I was greeted by billowing smoke. [...]

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I thought that this picture warranted publication. From a demolition site along Huangpi South (黄陂南) Road near Zhaojiabang (肇嘉浜) Road in Shanghai. Now part of an access road and subway construction site (line 10 I think).
I probably saw more construction in my first year here in Shanghai than in all my years in [...]

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Well, well, well. It’s a well and the cover’s off. With no one around.
I came across this well while walking around the farms nearby my wife’s grandparents’. It speaks to the lack of safety consciousness in China. Despite the fact that each kid is treated as if the entire race depended [...]

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