“To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To...
“Smith”. “Kim”. “Li”. “Devi”. These are all surnames from different parts of the world. I was never very interested in names, or the meanings that are behind them. I merely believed that names were labels meant for identifying who...
Know anyone with a dog named “Coca Cola”, shortened to “Cola” (可乐 )? Turns out that is also in fact a real life surname for a human in China.
认识谁养了一只叫“可口可乐”的狗吗？ 事实证明，这实际上也是中国人在现实生活中的姓氏。
Now everywhere has weird names. In the western world, many...
Surnames stick to you. Like skin, you can’t actually change them. You get tanned or bitten by insects, but cells are always there to remind you that this is your shape for ever and ever.
姓氏留在你身上。 就像皮肤一样，你实际上无法改变它们。 你被昆虫晒黑或咬伤，但细胞总是在那里提醒你，这是你的形状，永远是。
Surnames just stay...
Something which is often forgotten about China in the global discussion is the way it is fundamentally organised; for the people. After all, it is the People’s Republic of China, the People’s Liberation Army, the Municipal People’s Government, etc.
在全球讨论中，中国经常被遗忘的一件事是它的根本组织方式；为了人民。...
Once upon a time, at this very self-same time of year, a tiny starling flew in through my classroom window in Nanjing's Xianlin. It began to flap a frantic, feathery circle around the room; some of the kids ducked...
They say the ones who seek constant crowds are but nothing alone. Their souls lie in the masses, existing only as a part of something bigger. An organism of its own, born from an unspecified quantity that despite broken...
My dog dreams. I watch him, micro spasms of muscle power him through heroic dog epics of the ectoplasm of consciousness, barking at dream squirrels in dream trees. I also dream, but these bubbles of subliminal thought vanish at...
