Culture
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…
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Jonathan Chandler
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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,…
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…
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…