For those of us left in Beijing it’s a very strange time. Up to half the cities 20 million inhabitants have left the city whilst the rest seem to be setting off firecrackers outside my apartment for 15 hours a day.
There's a growing movement amongst Chinese university students to try and eradicate the widespread mistranslation of Chinese signs into English. This is rather a shame.
Christmas isn’t really celebrated in China - there are still decorations in the shop windows and the trees lining the major roads have been beautifully covered in lights, but there’s no great understanding of quite how important a holiday it is in the West.
Darlie toothpaste, which up until Colgate bought the brand from a Hong Kong company was known as Darkie toothpaste, featured a man who looked a lot more like Al Jolson from his Black & White Minstrel Act.
Whilst I'm persevering with learning Mandarin from Rosetta Stone and a Lonely Planet Phrasebook I went on-line to the Confucius Institute (the state sponsored Chinese School) to brush up on my tones.
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