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When I meet a new person here, there seems to be a few questions that always get asked. Where are you from? The US, and if they’ve got some common background, I’ll get more specific How long have you been in China? 2.5 months, about What brought you to Shanghai? I took a job with [...]

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Originally I was going to write a post about how pissed off I was that the hot water heater had broken where I am currently staying, and it was going to force me to have to carry a towel and a change of clothes over to my great aunt’s apartment every time I wanted to [...]

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I was going to write my own response but really I think this article on Time’s China blog does it much better. It’s a pretty scary situation, I think.

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I was linked to IndyBudget, an online personal budgeting tool earlier this week, and though it falls short of what I’d like to be able to do now (accounts in different currencies), it is pretty handy, and I wish I had such a thing back when I was still in the US and struggling to [...]

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Every night when I go to bed, it’s the same. I floss, I brush my teeth, I change clothes and then sit down and read a little if it’s not too late. Then, I turn off the light, and lay in bed, waiting for sleep. But while I am laying there in the dark, with [...]

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