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...