Thundering over continents of snowy moraines and ice-floes, China Air Flight 982 time traveled through 14 hours of uninterrupted daylight; when it finally landed in the morning, it was already tomorrow night.
Instantly on arrival, Chinese health officials, toting electronic monitoring equipment in trendy Converse messenger bags, boarded the plane and began individually screening passengers for flu like signs and symptoms. Since reporting [...]
At 5:00a.m., on the Tsinghua campus, along the edges of the lotus pool, while the sun is still red, there is the whirring sound of a man fanning the sidewalks with his Xiao Zhu (a small home-made switch).
Kerplunk! goes someone’s fishing line into the pond. Behind the fisherman, an older couple practices their Tai-Chi; an exercise in [...]
Behind the walls of the ancient city of Xi’an, a shop keeper is kneeling on the floor in the dust; he is making clothes for the dead.
Outside, rows of bare chested men are drinking beers, clacking mahjong tiles and spitting. The shop window is smudged with soot.
Clearly, not the GDP busting economic indicators you [...]
A grizzled old woman carrying a kettle of hot water, wafts from car to car selling Ramen noodles on the Wei River Highway.