Travel
Taiwan, Mecca for Noodle-Lovers
for TheWildEast.net “I want noodle!” I have heard this shouted many times on the streets of Taiwan, by both children and adults…
Archive
July 2009
9 stories
Jonathan Chandler's Lowdown on The Middle Kingdom
China heads to the beach
This is part of an exclusive, copyrighted series by British novelist Jonathan Chandler, “Lowdown on the Middle Kingdom.” For permission to publish…
Culture
Dear Rosanne: My wife won't let me see my girlfriend
Originally published in The China Post (but not online). Read more of Rosanne’s witty and hilarious columns for the culturally discombobulated on…
Jonathan Chandler's Lowdown on The Middle Kingdom
DeeDee – a 21st Century Chinese Girl
This is part of an exclusive, copyrighted series by British novelist Jonathan Chandler, “Low(down) on the (Shang)Hai.” For permission to publish elsewhere,…
Comedy
Dear Rosanne: My Taiwanese BF called me 'big nose'
Originally published in The China Post (but not online). Read more of Rosanne’s witty and hilarious columns for the culturally discombobulated on…
Travel
Unpaving Paradise: Digging Up Taiwan's Ancient Heritage
Cited on megalithic.co.uk Most of us inhabit this earth as far removed in our daily lives as possible from the roots of…
Opinion
Lowdown on Shanghai: Hot town, Summer’s in the city!
The furnace season is here, along with the blessed Plum Rains, which this year have killed hundreds with unprecedented flooding and heavenly…
Travel
Dear Rosanne: My foreign neighbor lady doesn't like foreign things
Originally published in The China Post (but not published anywhere else online). Read more of Rosanne’s witty and hilarious columns for the…
Jonathan Chandler's Lowdown on The Middle Kingdom
Saturday night in small town, provincial China
A couple of weekends ago, just after the Chinese New Year known here as The Spring Festival (which seems both erroneous and…