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Afraid you’ll miss out on sampling China’s regional specialties because you only have time to visit Beijing? Worry no more. Each of the provinces and many of China’s larger cities have offices in Beijing, complete with restaurants to cater to homesick officials. Tucked in nondescript hotels all around Beijing, these government-run restaurants offer reasonably-priced tastes of [...]
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China’s annual Spring Migration, when millions of workers head back to their hometowns for the Spring Festival (Chinese New Year), has been in full force for about a week now. While we have continued to go to school, Tsinghua’s campus has been emptying out of students, teachers and cafeteria workers. The loss of the hustle [...]
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In the spirit of bringing the travel spirit home, a couple of weeks ago my friend Jane and I headed over to the Lama Temple neighborhood in search of 算命. Literally “counting a life,” this is the Chinese term for fortune-telling. My friend is about to leave China, and getting her fortune told was one [...]
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Amid a week of “crazy bad” air pollution here in Beijing, the one saving grace has been the beautiful fall colors that can be seen around the city. Once known for being treeless, a pre-Olympics tree-planting campaign has introduced a fair amount of greenery to Beijing’s streets. And the parks and university campuses have always [...]
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In my new busy-student lifestyle, any trip downtown must be made the most of! So when we planned to go downtown for an event at a new bar two weeks ago, we knew we wanted to seize the opportunity to have a delicious meal, too. A bit of Internet research led me to Da Gui, [...]
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Whoops! I disappeared for awhile there. Despite the fact that I’ve just moved to one of the largest and most exciting cities in the world, I’ve barely stepped out of my neighborhood to explore it. Which doesn’t give me much to write a travel blog about. Or at least, that’s the excuse that first came [...]
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Getting used to being a student again has been a bit of a challenge, what with the reintroduction of homework, dictations and, this week, exams. But over the weekend, I got to enjoy one of the perks of my new status: a field trip! For our first outing, my program arranged for a group of [...]
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I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a little lazy when it comes to exploring the nightlives of the places I visit. After a long day of walking and sightseeing, I’m usually ready to spend some time talking over the day’s experiences, with or without a beer, and then hit the hay early. But [...]
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We enjoyed four or five consecutive sunny days in Beijing at the end of last week, which was the perfect excuse for Dan and me to explore one of the few famous sites in the capital that neither of us had ever been to: the Old Summer Palace, or Yuanmingyuan (圆明园). Its newer cousin, the [...]
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I may not be traveling much these days (the next trip on the calendar is not till October, poor me), so for posting-inspiration today, I’m turning to my Chinese textbook. Our first lesson in “listening class” concerned the famous foods of Beijing. A Taiwanese teacher was asking a teacher from Beijing for his tips on [...]
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