Category Archives: China

Cover Story About Cantonese

Posted on May 14, 2013 by cecilie

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Hitchhiking in China – Very Doable

Posted on April 8, 2013 by cecilie

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Dog Eat Not Dog (SCMP Column)

Posted on February 4, 2013 by cecilie

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Good Lord, Is That The Time?

Posted on January 24, 2013 by cecilie

I mean, quarter past three weeks since I last posted a blog entry? Bloody hell. I can’t live like this. I think it all started when the Sony service centre blithely called and said I had lost two weeks’ worth … Continue reading →

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Then It Was Christmas Eve – and Column!

Posted on January 7, 2013 by cecilie

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One For The Team

Posted on December 30, 2012 by cecilie

This is how it started. We had dived into an upmarket restaurant because the temperature was dropping fast and it was raining; we just couldn’t bear the thought of another meal with our backs to an open door, huddled around … Continue reading →

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The Joys Of Guiyang, a Photo Safari

Posted on December 28, 2012 by cecilie

Is it only Guangdong province that has proper youth discos? Here in Guizhou it’s all boring KTV, i.e. sitting in a small rented room by yourself or with two friends, singing karaoke and being waited on by people like the … Continue reading →

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Sub-Dickensian but Still Privileged

Posted on December 26, 2012 by cecilie

It’s officially cold. Not “I’m just going outside and may be some time” cold, but “have to wear hats, scarves and gloves in a restaurant” cold. And thermal underwear. Yesterday I went outside about 6.15AM to harden myself for what … Continue reading →

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Experimenting With Camera

Posted on December 25, 2012 by cecilie

We must have stayed in the wrong part of town in that Foshan, for surely there are more interesting and less sterile parts of it than the area where our hotel, the City Inn, was. And less windy, eight-laned and … Continue reading →

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Journey to the North

Posted on December 22, 2012 by cecilie

Christmas has come to the mainland as so have we. We will go where no man has gone before: Into the freezing hinterland of inner Guizhou province. But that’s this afternoon; for now we’ve only got as far as Foshan. … Continue reading →

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