Impressions of China

Pickup games at Tsinghua, from October. A couple of times a week I go to the Olympic-size pool on campus to swim. There are a dozen outdoor ...

Thanksgiving in Beijing

Cindy on the campus of neighboring Beijing University.  Today I am thankful for having a spouse... ....who is comfortable living in a countr...

My Japanese office mate

Yoichi Nishimura   is a newspaper editor on a one-year sabbatical here at Tsinghua University to study China-U.S.-Japan relations. We go to ...

A little tour of Tsinghua University campus

The music is composed and played by Patrick Breiner: Dance Music for Tony Malaby.

Deciphering China, ideograms to menus

You have to keep your head up and your eyes peeled while riding a bicycle around in Beijing, especially on campus, as this 13-second video s...

Borscht and other Belarus delicacies

The Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita) was also a butterfly expert. I thought of him when I saw this beautiful specimen along th...

Spain’s museums celebrate the simpler life

We are not that far out of the village. Some of the museums we visited on our trip through Spain got me thinking about the unrecorded histor...

Beijing revisited, 23 years later

I spent a week running around Beijing to meet journalists and people connected to the business journalism program at Tsinghua University whe...

We didn’t run into a lot of Americans in Spain

The sun and beaches are a big attraction for residents of cooler, cloudier northern Europe. There are three ferries a week from Portsmouth a...

How to spend 9 weeks in Europe without losing your shirt

When I completed my contract in Mexico in December without having another one lined up, Cindy came up with the idea of taking two or three m...