Shanghai Tan

It wasn’t so long ago that Japanese fashion photographers would not use Japanese models for their top fashion shooting or for promoting luxury goods, they prefer to use western models with caucasian looks instead. That was during the 70s. At that time “Made in Japan” didn’t sound any good as it is today. Then little [...]

I can’t believe I haven’t written any blog for more than a month, it’s been a crazy month at work… Two weeks ago I went to Nanjing with a few friends, my first time to Nanjing actually. As a once glorious capital of China during the beginning of Ming Dynasty [明朝], and then capital of [...]

Last month I took a trip to Xi’an, Shaanxi province, at the central north of China. Visiting China without seeing Xi’an is like going to Egypt but haven’t seen the pyramids, or going to Cambodia but not seeing the Ankor wats. I’ve always wanted to visit Xi’an since my first time visiting China at 2004. [...]

I normally don’t post other authors’ photos on this blog, so that I can show off my own photos and at the same time proving that I am the best! But with every rule there is always an exception, sometime I run into photos that I can’t resist at bringing it up here, maybe so [...]

Last weekend I took a trip to Wuyuan [婺源] with the Quyou club [趣游俱乐部]. Wuyuan is a relatively large county that comprises several villages in northern Jiangxi [江西] province, about 500km from Shanghai. Every year from March to April, it attracts tourists from all over the places across China for its large and omnipresent rapeseed [...]

This is my first time going thru a real Spring Festival in China. At Shanghai, Spring Festival has become half traditional and half commercial. People do get together during the New Year Eve [大年夜] and the 1st January of lunar calendar [阴历] to have a big meal with the whole family, but that’s it. Normally [...]

It has snowed, snowed and snowed lately, in China, a record in the last 50 years! It has fallen more than 1.5 meters of snow during 2 weeks, with the worst going to the middle provinces of China: Hunan, Hubei, Henan, Anhui, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, etc. Every year, more than 100 millions Chineses who worked abroad [...]

After my first failed trip to Hangzhou last month, I decided to give it another try two weeks ago. I went there for a day trip with my tourist friend from Chengdu. It didn’t start well, I missed the train depature time by 5 minutes, so had to throw away the ticket and bought another [...]

One thing that is very different in the China’s IT industry versus North America is, there’s practically no gray hair in the workplace here. The average age is probably around 26-27 at the place where I work, many of them were born in the 80′s, the youngest are from the mid-80′s. Most of them started [...]

With more and more westerners now coming to China for doing business, the term guanxi has earned new popularity as they all learn that the success of their endeavor very much depends on how good their guanxi is with their local business partner and local government. At a time it was difficult to explain guanxi [...]