Showing off one’s self in the best possible light is a natural human attribute. But, just as with everything else, in China that concept is taken to new levels. Political correctness be damned; body pride is the way to...
Chinese weddings are no meagre affair. Copious amounts of food, baijiu, the colour red filled the wedding venue; lest we forget the guests themselves. With this “姐” (“jie”; sister) and that “哥” (“ge”; brother) all staring at the grinning...
A kettle sits in my front garden, inside a wedge of polystyrene in a cardboard box. I know for sure it is a kettle, because I justbought a new one. On Taobao.
一个水壶放在我的前花园里，在一个纸板箱里的聚苯乙烯楔子里。 我确定这是一个水壶，因为我刚买了一个新的。 在淘宝上。
The piercing whistle of the old...
Stephanie read the address out loud, hoping that this time, it would ring a bell. Sadly, just like every time before now, she came up blank. In her almost fifteen years of being a delivery person, she had never...
Alexander Von Humboldt. Carl Ritter. Alfred Russel Wallace. Paul Vidal de La Blache. Jared Diamond. Yifu Tuan. David Harvey. Milton Santos.
亚历山大·冯·洪堡。 卡尔·里特。 阿尔弗雷德·拉塞尔·华莱士。 保罗·维达尔·德拉·布拉什。 贾里德·戴蒙德。 Yifu Tuan。 大卫·哈维。 米尔顿·桑托斯。
All of these geographers spent the greater part of the 18th,...
I admit it, I’m a bit of a language nerd. One of my friends and a previous colleague of mine often sends me language memes and I get quite passionate in teaching my A-Level English Language class. In that...
You may be tired of hearing it on the news, every time you press the remote control. Climate change is a serious issue that has been plaguing our society for decades; its effects adding massive levels of greenhouse gases...
As an English teacher, I have to fight my natural urge to mock and demean geography, at least as a school subject.
作为一名英语老师，我必须抵制嘲笑和贬低地理的自然冲动，至少作为一门学校科目。
It is all too easy to dismiss it as “colouring in maps” and quizzes about flags, (although I...
