For foreigners aiming to invest in China, much attention must be paid to a big change coming about in legislation that is the Foreign Investment Law (Draft), issued by the National People’s Congress on December 26, 2018, presenting a...
The first order of business was learning how to cross the street. There are 5 million motorbikes in Hanoi among a population of about 7 million. They rush in and out of intersections like floodwaters. Pedestrian crossings are nothing...
“Dense Forrest and Layered Peaks” by Ju Ran, Tang Dynasty, British Museum. One of only two surviving works of the foremost landscape master. Fake.
“Riverbank” by Dong Yuan, Southern Tang, Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Art history would not have happened...
The start of a new year breathes new life into our world, and for China, a new law, the first of its kind, aims to bring about a similar new lease of life to the forever hot topic of...
The face is a picture of calm – dark eyes with a soft yet confident gaze, cheekbones accentuated by a warm pink glow, glossy skin and the stubble of what would be thick hair. A healthy looking man, were...
Concluding my 1 and a half years of study in the UK, I planned to travel alone somewhere else before I got stuck with possible work. I chose Japan to run away from the hustle and bustle of China,...
The Day Lily (干百合) is beautiful, fragrant, medicinal and edible, an elegant flower that blooms once a day and has for the past 2,000 years, in China at least, been used for medicinal and culinary purposes, as well as...
Before venturing north, south or west, after I first arrived in China, east was my first port of call; magical Shanghai in fact, where truly local Chinese cuisine was first impressed upon me.
The fiery flare of Sichuan woks is...
