flatnoseinchina

Ali Khan: From Delivery Truck Driver to Indian Don – Amritsar , Punjab I met Ali Khan through my host in Amritsar , a pharmacy shopkeeper n...

Having lived in Chengdu for eight months now, I have found it particularly interesting reading the comments of journalists and the general p...

Like many foreigners in China, I find myself spending a lot of time observing and interpreting Chinese culture, particularly its modern yout...

When one considers Beijing’s own No Wave scene, whimsy is rarely one of the first things that leaps to mind. Earnest ind...

For those interested in learning more about the history of the current China-Tibet issue, the following two sites (pasted below) carry a lot...

In July 2011, almost four years after moving to China, I returned to the United States to undertake an MBA at Duke University. As I’ve le...

China’s southernmost town of any reputable size, Mengla sits an hour away from the border with Laos, with Burma to its southwest and Vietnam...

PREFACE: Growing up the son of Chinese-Malaysians, my occasional summer trips back to Malaysia were family-oriented affairs. Moreover, they ...

Picture courtesy of Joanne Cotterill of Borneo Dream I recently read Jonathen Franzen’s wonderful novel, “ Freedom ”, and this past week in ...

NB: This is being posted for the benefit of the profiled Couchsurfing host, Pan. I'm not sure whether it was posted earlier, but if it w...