“China big attraction for US: poll”

Gotta love them Yankees.

In this Wednesday’s China Daily, Xie Chuanjiao wrote about a US-based survey called “A Study of American Perceptions of China”, in which two million Americans were polled about their ideas and images of the Middle Kingdom.

A few interesting pieces from the survey results:

What do Americans associate most with China? Forty-nine percent said [...]

Got milk…

700 Tons of Chinese Baby Formula Tainted with Melamine

Originally uploaded by g_yulong1

So far 53,000 children have been sickened from tainted baby formula in China. Not surprisingly, it’s got a lot of people feeling pretty scared.
I stayed with my Shanghainese friend and her family this past weekend. She graduated from Fudan last year and is now [...]

What I miss

Summer in Canada 03

Originally uploaded by april.fong4

Back in Shanghai and having a hard time settling down.
That probably has a lot to do with the fact that I’m homeless at the moment. My good pal Sofia, thankfully, has given me a place to stay throughout this apartment-searching debacle. I’ve been back for a little over a [...]

Mancini, the movies and me

I’ve become estranged from the cinema this year. That whole movie theatre experience where you sit comfortably in cushy chairs with your friends — a bag of fresh-popped popcorn in one hand, the big screen  sprawled across the wall in front of you. After all, I’ve been living in a land of one-dollar pirated DVDs. [...]