By Amy Sands

Expect Lots Of Drinkers From Beijing’s LGBT Community To Be At This Weekend’s Craft Beer Festival

That's Beijing dropped a bombshell yesterday, reporting that Galaxy Soho's management apparently doesn't want the city's LGBT Center to have an official presence at the Craft Beer ...

A Drive In Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a city unlike any other, its buildings rising up out of the hills like ridged obelisks, its waters rippling with cargo ships, ferries, and buoys, its mountainside pain ...

Chinese Fans In Uproar After National Soccer Team Loses 5-1 To Thailand

It's difficult -- it really is -- to say Chinese soccer has reached a "new" low, considering its history of match-fixing and utter, abysmal, unmitigated failure on the internationa ...

Introducing: The Creamcast, The Official Podcast Of Beijing Cream

We're launching a podcast! On the occassion of Episode 1, featuring Frank Yu, The Creamcast hosts John Artman and The Good Doctor are here to answer some questions. ...

Chen Guangcheng Is Being Asked To Leave NYU, And We Should All Be Okay With That

Last May, lawyer-activist Chen Guangcheng was a media darling and international hero. His dramatic escape from the village of Dongshigu, where he was held under house arrest, made ...

Hail And Serein: The Amazing Storm That Just Swept Through Beijing

That was quite the collective experience, Beijing. An hour ago, a dam in the sky broke. Rain turned into pellets of ice, the sound of its steady assault only interrupted by thunder ...

Gaokao Questions Are Ridiculous

Global Times is running a neat feature on its Facebook page (yes, Global Times has a Facebook page) in which it posts sample questions from China's National College Entrance Exam, ...

Meet A Chinese Person (x2): Vicki and Sissi

By Amy Sands March 3, 2012 5:00 am Comment : 1

By Amy Sands In addition to their indisputable beauty and mastery of funny faces, fellow English teachers Sissi and Vicki have much in common. To begin, both have favorite foods that I had never heard of: Sissi loves “liulianguo” while Vicki loves “shanzhu.” After a heated debate about the existence of these fruits and possible translation errors, a Google search revealed that liulianguo is the durian, a sp ...