I returned to Beijing today from what was supposed to be a 6-day holiday in Spain and France that, because of all the suddenly-cancelled flights to China, turned into an 11-day trek. The last flight I took -- from Bangkok -- was quite full, mostly with Chinese, although with...
...more foreigners than I had expected. (Beijing airport, on the other hand, was nearly empty at 3 pm.)
For the nice people who have written to ask why I’ve been so silent recently on Twitter and my blog, the reason is because I’m too clumsy (i.e. lazy) to do much writing on...
For the nice people who have written to ask why I’ve been so silent recently on Twitter and my blog, the reason is because I’m too clumsy (i.e. lazy) to do much writing on...
...my iPhone, especially running in and out of airports and hotels trying to coordinate flights.
For what it’s worth I’ll probably write more than normal in the coming weeks because life in Beijing is still likely to be slow. Peking University, for example, will start the...
For what it’s worth I’ll probably write more than normal in the coming weeks because life in Beijing is still likely to be slow. Peking University, for example, will start the...
...new semester a couple of weeks late, but because the campus remains essentially closed, professors will conduct all classes online. As an aside, several of my students around China have sent me messages begging me to give them extra-curricular assignments, the tougher the...
...better. They've been stuck for weeks in their parents’ apartments, quarreling ferociously, unable in many cases even to go out, and know that this lockdown may stretch itself out for many more weeks. They're bored to tears.
Although clearly not everyone is bored.
