Jonathan Chandler's Lowdown on The Middle Kingdom
Lowdown Leaves Qingdao
The Wild East Magazine Magpies… What was it? One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, hundreds of the frockers,…
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Jonathan Chandler’s Lowdown on The Middle Kingdom
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Jonathan Chandler's Lowdown on The Middle Kingdom
Good Old Uncle Ho
Lantern Festival marks the end of Chinese New Year or Spring Festival as it is officially known here and the 3rd Plenary…
Jonathan Chandler's Lowdown on The Middle Kingdom
New Year’s Day of the Tiger – 'Party' town.
Jonathan Chandler The Wild East The snow which fell a week or so back has yet to melt completely and the winds…
Jonathan Chandler's Lowdown on The Middle Kingdom
Different Times, Different Worlds
Jonathan Chandler The Wild East It snowed dream-like and blew bone-flaying gusts of Artic wind last week. The sky was bleeding lead…
Jonathan Chandler's Lowdown on The Middle Kingdom
An 'Informal Settler' in Manila
‘Lowdown’ Goes to the Philippines for Christmas By Jonathan Chandler for The Wild East I made a last-minute decision to get out…
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When Love is in the Air… in China
The remnants of a typhoon piddled on Qingdao last night, whetting the thirsts of the flowers, trees and citizens, tantalizingly dewy but…
Jonathan Chandler's Lowdown on The Middle Kingdom
Strangely fascinating: China's 60th anniversary fanfare
Golden week came and went in high Indian summer up here in Qingdao. Temperatures in the thirties in the second week of…
Jonathan Chandler's Lowdown on The Middle Kingdom
Fortune-telling Alive & Well in The Middle Kingdom
Certain practices and “superstitions” were frowned upon, violently so, during the Cultural Revolution – a recent hiatus in China’s rich and ancient…
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People Mountain, People Sea… of Cars
September is here, and with it the teeming masses have left the beach – drunk down all the Tsingtao beer during the…
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…
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,…
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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…