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Thanks for the Grub

Posted on June 27, 2013 by verybecoming | 1 Comments

Featured writer: M. Blaha I could see the expression on my mom’s face when I told her I would be writing an article for Shanghai Expat about eating insects. I asked myself each day leading up to the day of éntomos consumption what I could have possibly been thinking when I suggested this idea for an article. The texture? The…

Through NGO Fellowship, The Author Discovers the Forgotten Center of China

Posted on March 12, 2013 by veryunsuspicious | 0 Comments

Featured writer: Very Unsuspicious The geographic center of the world’s most populous country sounds like a busy place. But if you stabbed a finger at the middle of a map of China, you would most likely find yourself pointing at a sparsely-populated region once known as Tibet. Today, Tibet lingers on officially only as the TAR (“Tibet Administrative Region”), while…

Welcome to the Other Side of the World

Posted on December 27, 2012 by scott saalman | 0 Comments

Featured writer: Scott Saalman I can’t believe I’m here, was my first thought upon landing in Hong Kong, its airport—an island really—home to a breathtaking holding pattern, an expansive sparkle of city, ribbon-misted mountain, river and sea converging into clearer focus through each second of cloud sink like the time-lapsed birth of a Polaroid picture; the crowded 747 did lazy…

Life is Like a Box of Mooncakes

Posted on October 26, 2012 by verybecoming | 1 Comments

Featured writer: verybecoming The Mid-Autumn festival is upon us. Anyone willing to stay in Shanghai during the country-wide, week-long holiday will have to grin and bear crowds of Chinese people in celebration. I have been forewarned. The large crowds (even larger than usual) can be the source of frustration if you let them. No matter how much you tell yourself that…

Adventure off the Cement Road, Diversions in China’s Green Patties of Rice

Posted on September 16, 2012 by afrisk | 0 Comments

Featured writer: Anna Frisk “Sleeping, sleeping?” the Chinese woman asked, not stated, in my general direction. Standing atop a battered ridge, deep in southern China amid rows of perfectly designed and manicured rice patties, she pleaded that I leave the masses and join her. “Sleeping!” she urged again, with a gesture of unmistakable sign language, her head tilted to the…

A Life-Changing Summer: Missions in China

Posted on March 5, 2012 by unusual.passions | 0 Comments

Featured Writer: Alisha Newton Summertime for the student is a three-month span of blank calendar boxes, simmering temperatures, and boundless energy. For me in particular, I want to make every month of the year count towards growing and learning—my kind of adventure—and the summer is the perfect opportunity to have the best adventures of all. So the summer of 2010, I…