In a tea house, listening to songs from around the world, enjoying the warmness of the place, lying down on a soft purple mat. Having a conversation about life. My new colleague was telling me about his beginnings as a painter. How he decided to exploit the “Gift economy” theory with his paintings. In short, […]
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Same goals, different ways
Most of what amazes us in China comes from these little daily habits we don’t notice until someone makes them in a different way. China is full of little differences, shocking, funny, clever and sometimes disgusting to an occidental eye. Nevertheless the ancestral China is present in all its people habits, now dissappearing with the […]
Xian bicycle
China is one of those countries that words can hardly describe. It’s almost impossible to depict Chinese daily life, the odd balance between the developing country and the traditional one. It’s also almost impossible to explain in writing how and why we, foreigners living here, love and hate China. Living and working is China is […]