Below is part 2 of our interview with expatriate Steve Holt…

Q: What’s health care like in China?

A: Cheap! It’s really, really inexpensive to go see a doctor. Things that would cost an arm and a leg in the United States are really cheap here. I know very few Westerners [...]

Recently, a friend of mine who is having a ‘bad China year’ has been complaining a lot about how uncreative Chinese society as a whole is. I can understand where he’s coming from. He’s an extremely creative person in his own right: he’s a graphic artist who has his [...]

We recently interviewed expatriate Steve Holt (names may have been changed to protect the innocent) about his thoughts about China. Steve is a relatively new transplant to China, but in his short time here, he’s experienced quite a bit. This is part 1 of that interview. Let’s see what [...]

Today, I’m starting a new series of posts that I’ll include on the blog whenever I feel like it, probably on my bad China days. The new series is called “Dear China”. In this series of posts, I’ll pick whatever it is that happens to bother me the most about [...]

So my roommate and I went for lunch the other day at a Japanese rice bowl place. We walked in, and only 1 of the 3 employees was awake. The other 2 were sleeping with their heads on the table, completely unaware that customers had even entered the shop. [...]