It seems those in charge of PR in China right now are having a hard time understanding public opinion. They are working hard towards keeping something like the recent jasmine uprisings from getting a foothold, but their actions seem to be sparking more and more resistance. A week ago they presented Ai Weiwei with what [...]

I know I’ve talked about the Kitty Norville books by Carrie Vaughn books before – a werewolf named Kitty? In the most recent book, Kitty’s Big Trouble, Kitty goes to Chinatown in San Francisco and ends up meeting The Monkey King — and a few other Chinese gods, while she’s at it. She describes Monkey [...]

I often hear adoptive parents talk about how they have to be ambassadors for China. I get what they are saying — I want my kids to feel good about where they came from, so when I hear one of their friends’ parents saying something negative that isn’t true, I feel the need to set [...]

I often name my blog post the name of an article, when we are discussing an article. But it would have been a bit misleading to title today’s blog post “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior“. Because many would have thought I was talking about our children’s biological mothers, and that’s not the point of the [...]

I’m sure everyone has heard about the traffic jam outside of Beijing, but did you know that it “miraculously” cleared up? The funny thing is, when Letterman started joking about it last night during the monologue and I realized how much of an embarrassment this would be to the Powers That Be in Beijing, I [...]

Three years ago I made this post with some articles about how China would be celebrating the holiday. I also talked a bit about how our family celebrates, and talked about how I used this holiday to think about GlitterGirl’s birth family. I wonder if they are looking at the moon and wondering where she [...]