The Spring Festival – or Chinese New Year – is a big period for traveling in China. While not...

A comparatively short report this month, as I spent some time away from Shanghai and was afraid of venturing...

It is now almost exactly two years that I last was outside of China. At some point, my stock...

“Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don’t know.” This is how blog posts would ideally start. Unfortunately, they...

The Salon des Refusés was an art exhibition held in Paris in 1863 to show work that had been...

Here in Shanghai, December is the month that a birder’s addiction cannot be satisfied by the increasingly meager assortment...

My last trip to Balangshan was in July 2021 – now I was back, three months later. Yes, I...

Given the strict covid prevention measures here in China, I have not left the country in almost 2 years...