I’ve just made my annual offering to the gods—I created yet another custom photo wall calendar for my in-laws.
Posts tagged Chinese Culture
Stop Being Scared of China (and Get a Chinese Massage!)
It’s not a very good time to be Chinese in the West. If you’re not a spy, people suspect you run a sweatshop factory, slaughter your pet dog for breakfast, buy all the properties you can land on, trample on human rights just for laughs or flood the world with shitty products.
We Are Being Stalked (By an Unlikely Stalker)
Life is punctuated by a series of enlightening, unexpected, and occasionally puzzling before-and-after moments.
Let Me Clear Out a Big Chinese Food Misunderstanding
Here is the paradox with Chinese food—it’s not as weird as you think and it’s probably not what you imagine.
“You Suck!” – Chinese Parenting 101 For Westerners
Western parents rely on science- and psychology-based books. Chinese parents occasionally glance at the memo stuck on the rice cooker—“whatever your child does, just state it’s not good enough.”
The One Thing I Didn’t Know I Would Ever Have to Explain
As the official head of the parental communication team, I was fully prepared to help Mark read the fine print of life in society.