Tag: Beijing
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The March of Time
So it’s March 2016 already. You may be sick of hearing such comments but the very real problem I have had is that I haven’t put up more than one post per month over the last few months. I’d love to say that I’ll change and that this year will be different but, honestly, I don’t foresee things…
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An Update on the Progress of My Learning of the Chinese Language
I had at least one moment of clarity in the past couple of months: Chinese sounded like a real language. That is to say, after returning to Beijing and spending some time away from the Chinese language, I was on the bus when the computerized voice announced the next stop. Without much thinking (although I was…
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Beijing’s AQI and The Price of Chinese Success
We had our first snow about a week ago which means that Beijing has beaten most parts of Canada to winter weather. Most of the leaves have fallen off of the trees and the dutiful elders that are employed by the city to clean them up have been busy. Skies were blue and the air…
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Mr. China and The Innocents Abroad
And now we’re back into the semester as the National Day break has ended. The wind has picked up, bringing colder weather and knocking the leaves from the trees, which have hardly had time to change colour. The one good thing about the wind is that it blows the smog away from the city. Since I…
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National Day Break, Books, and the 798 Art District
Well just over a week into the next semester and I’m on another break already. China has their National Day break from October 1st to 7th and so that means I have a full week off. Why don’t I go somewhere? Well, I was meaning to go to the Phillippines but I never got around…