Macau: half old charm and half vapid glitz
As a new expat in 2005, I listened to the crackly Portuguese language radio station from Macau whose air waves barely wafted across the water to my Zhuhai, China apartment. […]
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Pretentious Property Developers
The magnetism of old(-ish) Hong Kong money and new Mainland China money has fueled the construction of pompous residential real estate developments across China’s Pearl River Delta. I’m sure many of […]
I blame James Bond
Despite my mother’s jaw-cracking cringe upon overhearing the line from “You Only Live Twice,” “…in Japan men come first, women come second,” in 1985, I sat in front of the […]
Macau for the weekend? My thoughts on “House of the Dancing Waters”
My synopsis of the actual show: Stunt upon stunt upon stunt including many dramatic stage changes: now there’s a pool, now there’s not, now people are falling from the rafters, […]
Piracy on the Hong Kong-Macau ferry
After last week’s Austin Coates’ quote, I must also share his vivid reference to piracy in the Pearl River Delta: “… [China’s new post-civil war government] did at least one notable service: […]
China’s Pearl River Delta = woe for the Chinese language student
Seven years ago I blindly, hopefully, naively plunged into the study of Mandarin Chinese. It’s always been part-time study, interrupted frequently. Plugging along in this way I now speak, comprehend, and […]
