Entries by AlanPaul
Buy and read Matrimony
My friend Joshua Henkin has a new novel in the stores. It’s called Matrimony and it’s really good. (Yes, I actually read it.) The book explores a 20-year relationship between a couple starting in college.. and goes through the ups and downs of a long-term relationship and a marriage. The characters are about my vintage […]
Early Morning in the hutong
The original lead of my last column about expats going to Chinese schools read like this: Standing in the middle of a hutong street early one recent weekday morning, I was surrounded by children piling into a nearby elementary school. They arrived by bike, pedicab, car, foot and every other possible manner, all wearing their […]
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More Shanghai pictures
The famous Bund on Shanghai’s waterfront. Check out the crowd’s down below.This is why a lot of people don’t like to travel in China during the national holidays.Lovely to sit on the seventh floor patio sipping a beer and looking down though.That’s the Pearl Tower on the other side of the river.. that whole area, […]