Sunday Delights
Back in One Way Street Library, a library and bookstore that my Beijing friends have started some years ago. The main venue is at the margin of Yuan Ming Park i...
Category: Asia
Celebrating German Unity
The annual german embassy’s event for our national holiday is a rather big thing. Dozens of big black limousines queue up before 17, Dongzhimenwai Dajie, ...
Haidian Daily Life
Now it’s nearly three weeks that I am back in Beijing. I’ve moved to my own apartment in the northwestern Haidian district, home of the most importa...
China Runs Alone
Scarlatti is back, sending from Beijing, and switching to english again, for a while at least. Today, after the (mostly unpleasant) experience of a rush-hour ri...
“The more wildly the West gesticulate, the narrower the latitude for the reformers”
For the record, I’d like to point to this very thoughtful and interesting interview (english translation at ESWN) with former Wirtschaftswoche China corre...
Buying Bits and Pieces
Beijing shows its friendly side. It’s sunny and pleasantly warm. Today I went to one of the Zhongguancun Electronics Markets to replace a broken recharger...
Breathing Beijing
It seems I have caught this year’s worst-polluted day in one of the worst-polluted cities on this planet. (If you wanna see how this looks, just follow th...
Christmas in Chengdu
I’m sitting in the Chengdu Bookworm Café, enjoying a free hotspot (very common in China, not as rare as in Germany), the cozy atmosphere of a library and ...
Switching Positions
The 10th floor of Guibin Lou Hotel (贵宾楼饭店), with a balcony looking down upon Chang’an Street and the Forbidden City was the appropriate location for a far...