The Greatest Firewall of All
There are times when the chinese words come to you as friends. “Neng gan! Yes, you can!”, they whisper in your ear. On every taxi ride, on shop fron...
Category: Reports from Daily Clutter
Irrevocable Shift
Living with ambiguities can be entertaining, sexy and fun. It can also be very exhausting in the long run. During a breathtaking climax of crises happening over...
Beijing Update
Life in the capital has been unspectacular during the last two weeks. Some small tasks, some language learning, and collecting evidence for some sidelines of my...
Campus Life, Chinese Style
Arrived for a one-week visit at the Huazhong (Central China) University of Science and Technology (HUST) in Wuhan, the official partner for my research project....
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, ...
Summary of a Day
Worked at home, at a moderate pace (14 sent emails and a couple of phone calls make it an average day), listening to the trancy Necks (thanks, Daniele). The sum...
Days of the Clown
So, children hate clowns? Not only children, I reckon. Remember that scene in Tootsie, when an angry Dustin Hoffman knocks over the unsuspecting pantomime in Ce...
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 ...
Inverted Jet Lag
Back in Beijing and suffering from the worst biorhythmical confusion I’ve ever had after the eastward trip. I wake up in the middle of the night, fully al...
Stuck Halfway Between 0.5 and 0.9
After one week of virus rule I am still handicapped, still every attempt to get out of my bedroom prison is punished by severe coughing fits forcing me back to ...