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High-Decibel Tradition
The view from our living room. For hours and hours. The worst of the bombardment is over now, and I’ve been remembering why we made sure to be out of the country for the last two Chinese New Year...
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Battling the King of Wealth
For an hour and a half, I’ve been fighting. From just before 7, the outbreaks of man-made thunder began. I fought the adolescent curses that leapt to my mind. I stayed still in my bed, calming my mind...
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Better Read Than Never: Yardley’s BRAVE DRAGONS
Reviewed: Brave Dragons: A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing by Jim Yardley (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012, 304 pages) [A slightly different version of this review also...
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Fireworks End. (Maybe.)
I knew I should’ve gone to bed earlier. Young friends had warned us Friday night that Sunday would be the last Big Day of the Chinese lunar new year blast. Another one?! we gasped, mostly for laughs...
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Thinking With Your Flagpole
Are you sure that you’re thinking? How do you know? Bride and Boy and I are back in the academic saddle as of last week, and I saw my freshman writing classes for the first time. Like many Chinese...
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