Tag: Beijing
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Seeing Beijing: Burger Fest 2020
We missed the Great Leap Back ally Chili cookoff but we didn’t miss theBeijinger’s Burgerfest. It is one of those events you hear about and always think “Yea, I’d like to go some time” but then never do. This year, in league with my idea of seeing something around Beijing or China every week, I…
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September already and a change up of scheduling
It’s hard to believe that it’s already September but it does seem like things are slowly getting back to normal. We still have quite a few health and hygiene measures in place here in Beijing but some have been relaxed, notably wearing a mask. Now that nine months of 2020 has passed I can’t help…
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Steven Sirski LIVE – Aug 21, 2020
Recorded on Friday, August 21, 2020. So here is another live episode in which I go through a couple of the recent posts I’ve made on the website. Notably, “Green Means Go” and “Stepping up to HSK 5”. You can listen online or download the file and take it with you. Topics discussed: New work…
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Green Means Go: Working and Travelling after COVID
We’re finally back on the road for work, but the experience is a touch more complicated in that we now have to download, and register, a slew of new APPs, most of which are primarily in Chinese. What are these APPs? Other than tracking out whereabouts and travel history, each APP needs to give us…
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SSP14 – Film Junkie Owen Johnston
Recorded Friday, July 31, 2020. This week I have another guest and friend from here in Beijing. He’s a self-described rather “unremarkable man” but has done something remarkable during the COVID-19 lockdown: he’s watched a lot of movies. One a day… for the last six months. Today we Zoom together (because we got rained out…