As I was quite active in the blogger scene (if you can call it that) up in Dalian, and had met a few good friends because of it, I was eager to check out what Suzhou had in way of bloggers when I first moved down here two years ago.
At the time the only blog [...]
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Tagged with: chabuduo • china blogsphere • Learning Chinese • online friends • rao kou ling • suzhou expats |
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Despite the repressive heat and complete lack of rain (it’s only drizzled once or twice since I posted about it), the title is pointing more towards a different climate - the Olympic/visa climate.
I’ve been intentionally quiet lately because, to be honest, my stay in China has been resting on a bed of nails.
My visa was [...]
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Tagged with: China Travel • chinese visa • l visa • olympics • psb • spousal visa |
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So, story goes - sometime yesterday afternoon both Shanghaiist and Beijing Boyce reported on a South China Morning Post article by Tom Miller entitled “Authorities order bars not to serve black people”.
Mrs. Granite Studio (YJ), Danwei, Beijing Boyce and a number of others have jumped to the call and found no evidence that supports the [...]
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Tagged with: 2008 • Beijing • beijing bars • beijing nightlife • blacks banned in beijing • olympics • rumours • scmp • south china morning post |
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I’m not sure what our little “Venice of the East” did to encourage it, but in the last six months to a year Suzhou has gone from having virtually no English city/culture magazines to having no less than three - and with the official launch of that’s Suzhou last night, there’s little doubt the mags [...]
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Tagged with: expat magazines • MORE magazine • OPEN magazine • publications • suzhou magazines • suzhou sheraton • that's suzhou • urbanatomy |
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Suzhou is green. Hell, it’s a garden city. And a great part about it, is it stays green all year round. It makes the city a nice place to look at no matter what time of year you come here.
The tradeoff is that it rains non-stop. We go from rainy season to typhoon season back [...]
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Tagged with: apartment • lawn care • sip • Suzhou-weather |
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