The China Meteorological Administration (CMA) has issued a “Red Alert” for a good chunk of the country due to wide-spread snow storms.
Looking out my window it’s not hard to see why. Suzhou, a city that might see one light dusting of snow a year is covered in 2+ feet of the white stuff.
Needless to say, [...]
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Tagged with: climate • natural disaster • red alert • weather |
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ChinesePod.com, one of the pioneers for learning languages via podcasts, has recently relaunched their affiliate program, and I gotta say, it’s better than ever.
An affiliate program might not mean much to many of you, but I know a lot of folks that read this blog regularly also run their own China-related blogs and sites, and [...]
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Tagged with: chinesepod • Learning Chinese • mandarin • podcasts |
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I’m no fan of “organized” religions by any stretch. Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists… they all astound me in the faith they have for something that for all intents and purposes doesn’t exist but for the fact that they will it to.
What further astounds me are the things that are and have been done under the [...]
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Tagged with: scientology • tom cruise |
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Having a blog that has first page Google rankings for any number of keyword searches about Suzhou, I tend to get a lot of traffic from people looking for information about the place, generally because they’re living, visiting or moving here.
When questioned, I’m always quick to mention how cool a place Suzhou is for foreigners. [...]
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Tagged with: snow in suzhou • Suzhou-climate • Suzhou-weather |
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So I’m hearing rumours that this here blog got itself mentioned in (the Friday edition of?) the China Daily.
I’ve not read the article, and so have idea in what light things were portrayed or why it was mentioned even, but huh, neat.
And here I was chuffed that my hometown paper posted the letter to the [...]
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Tagged with: china daily • Chinese-media • in print |
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