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It was just an ordinary night in Shenzhen: we were hanging clothes on the small balcony of our “village” house
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Last spring, Shanghai was in lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic. I watched the city fall silent from afar as
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In the wee hours of the morning I, unfortunately, woke up. The make-up artist would be around at 5 am
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If you’ve spent any time in China and particularly with locals, you will definitely come across Douyin 抖音 or Chinese
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I arrived in China for my studies at the end of Summer, just as Autumn was beginning to creep in.
Continue readingHow China Changed My Relationship with Food
When I first visited Shanghai in 2016 for 6 weeks, I visited 蔡先生 Cai Xiansheng, a local Shanghainese restaurant chain.
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