Category Archives: Holidays

You’ve Never Heard of a Paper Snowflake?

So it’s Christmas time in China. The cars are honking, the rain is falling, and the sky is a nice clear gray. Nothing quite like it except maybe Seattle or some other punch line.
When I go to the store I get to hear Christmas carols sung by people with Chinese accents over the [...]

Shilin: The Place that Shouldn’t Exist

Chord of the Rings. Charry Potter. Chinal Chantasy. Chagic the Chathering. Ch-Zelda. The Chible. What do all these names have in common? They’re fantasy themed entertainment that I tried to make an overused joke about by mixing their titles with the word “China.” Why would I make this lame joke? [...]