Modern Sky Festival. Last week we went to the Modern Sky Festival, a music festival in Haidian park, Haidian district, Beijing. A music fest...

Hiking. This past weekend we went to Fragrant Hills in Beijing's Northwest to go hiking and pick up trash, trying to help at least a par...

Testing. The other day the topic for our daily textbook reading was this Chinese test called the Gaokao , literally translated, kind of a sh...

Going Out. So this past Friday night we went out to a bar with a bunch of Chinese kids: students, roommates, roommates boyfriends and girlfr...

(This post marks my first report on Chinese contemporary art. I hope it will be continued by many more) Pace Beijing is beautiful. Last Wedn...

Ping pong politics. Beijing so far is not about the architecture, the politics, the Olympic games being over, or the communism or the Great ...