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ExploreMetro: Useful, Intuitive China Subway Maps & Information

ExploreMetro: Useful, Intuitive China Subway Maps & Information

Every so often you run into something so completely wonderful, it forces you to ask yourself, “how the hell did I never hear of this before?” ExploreMetro... 

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2 New Shanghai Metro Observations: Patience & Top Gear

2 New Shanghai Metro Observations: Patience & Top Gear

Once you’ve been living in China for awhile, you begin filtering out all the background noise and taking many of the things you once marveled at for granted.... 

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“600″- My Film on Expat Foreigners Living in China

“600″- My Film on Expat Foreigners Living in China

My film “600″ which I shot in Shanghai in 2007 has recently been accepted into some major U.S. and international film festivals after a short successful... 

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Shanghai Nights: Dating Diary of a Legendary Expat Mattress Wrestler in China (Tale #1)

Shanghai Nights: Dating Diary of a Legendary Expat Mattress Wrestler in China (Tale #1)

      I have a friend, let’s call him “Terry”, he is a legendary “mattress wrestler”. What is a mattress wrestler? A mattress... 

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Converting chunks of USD into RMB…one day at a time.

Converting chunks of USD into RMB…one day at a time.

There is an utterly amazing perk many American expats or travellers in China can enjoy so long as they’re customers of Bank of America (whom are legion, despite... 

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Getting To Know Beijing’s Subway Line 10 (Part 2)

Getting To Know Beijing’s Subway Line 10 (Part 2)

It’s on with the program. If you didn’t blink, you’ll know where we are — we just introduced Beijing’s Subway Line 10 last week. This... 

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Getting To Know Beijing’s Subway Line 10 (Part 1)

Getting To Know Beijing’s Subway Line 10 (Part 1)

Beijing’s Subway Line 10, slated to open in June 2008, looks at first to be an arc line — the only arc line of its type when it opens. Having just been... 

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The Monday Metropolis: Of Boxes and Red Roofs — Beijing Subway Station Designs

The Monday Metropolis: Of Boxes and Red Roofs — Beijing Subway Station Designs

You are familiar with Subway Line 10, are you? It’s one of those new subway lines opening in about two months here in Beijing, and when it’s reality,... 

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When the Beijing Subway Starts <I>Not</i> Making Sense

When the Beijing Subway Starts Not Making Sense

It’s Guomao. You know, that big “place” in eastern urban Beijing where everything’s supposed to make sense. Make sense as in economically.... 

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More China Proxy Server Tips for Isolated Chinese Netizens

More China Proxy Server Tips for Isolated Chinese Netizens

UPDATE: Part 2 of 2 posts on China Proxy Server Tips. Part 1 by Min Guo is here. I hate to make a second post for this but given that I cannot simply edit my additions... 

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Shanghai in Snow, some feel of Winter

Shanghai in Snow, some feel of Winter

My friend Shirley Tao spent a day in Shanghai Century Park (世纪公园, Shìjì Gōngyuán) in Pudong today where the temperature is only 1 or 2 degrees Celsius.... 

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Trying out Jajah, Jaxtr, and Skype so US callers can call China mobile numbers for free

Trying out Jajah, Jaxtr, and Skype so US callers can call China mobile numbers for free

Happy New Year! Greetings from China.  I celebrated New Years in the air, leaving SFO at 12:13 pm on December 31, 2007, and arriving in Shanghai at 6:30 pm on... 

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