Hike in hills has auspicious beginning

Cindy and farmer near Auspicious Village On Sunday we joined about 20 other folks on a hiking trip to villages about 90 minutes north of Bei...

What a $6 haircut looks like

 The barbershops on the Tsinghua University campus offer haircuts for 10 yuan, about $1.75. Last year I had a couple of bad experiences at $...

To get a girlfriend, you need a back seat

One of my favorite sites on the Tsinghua University campus is of the male students hauling their female friends around on the back of their ...

Be bold, and luck be with you

My address to the 2012 graduates of the Global Business Journalism program at Tsinghua University, Beijing.  I am going to talk with you a b...

Guangxi: Terraced rice paddies, sugarloaf mountains

Rice paddy near Ping'an Yao women are famous for their long hair. A tourism boom is fueling construction of new homes and hotels  in rur...

China's grandparents

In a park in Beijing. Many Chinese families still live with three and four generations under one roof. Some of my acquaintances leave their ...

Three days on the Yangtze River

The rugged terrain of the Three Gorges region of the Yangtze sheltered it from much of the development taking place in the rest of China in ...