Entries by AlanPaul

World Cup Finals/Shanghai update

Shanghai was really a blast. We just got home an hour ago as I write. We went to the Women’s World Cup finals on Sunday night, with a group of 44, all put together and orchestrated by the mighty Scott Kronick. Thanks Scott. He hired a bus to drive us over to the stadium and […]

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Off to shanghai…

It is a national holiday in china all of next week. October holiday, in honor of Thursday’s Moon Festival. We are going to Shanghai this afternoon for five days. Will be at the Women’s World cup finals Sunday night and the Special Olympics opening ceremonies on Tuesday. My friend Scott organized the outing and we […]

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I need your support — vote for me

China Daily and Lenovo are holding a contest to select several expat Olympics torch bearers. They will be chosen by open voting – sort of unique for China in that regards. I entered as a lark. Actually, I thought I was filling out an application to be selected as a contestant but I was actually […]

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RE: Bollinger

I have to admit that when I made my post about Bollinger I had little context. I really didn’t realize this had been such a big deal in the U.S, and received so much coverage. I had not read anything about the appearance, or how it was being perceived. A few of you wrote and […]

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Silvia in the house

Silvia Kleer came through for two days over the weekend, towards the end of an Asian business trip that took her to Tokyo, Hiroshima, Kyoto, Shanghai and Nanjing as well. I may be missing a few. She is a macher now. Always to great to have visitors and Sli was a pleasure. We hit all […]

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Last column

I got almost no feedback via email or forum on this column, which really surprised me. THE EXPAT LIFEBy ALAN PAUL Expat Parents in China KeepAdopted Babies Close to HomeSeptember 14, 2007 Virtually every flight I’ve ever been on from China to the U.S. has had at least two couples returning home with a newly […]

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Courage

Read this when you have time. Columbia University President Lee Bollinger’s introduction of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It’s really quite tremendous. Bollinger was the president of U-M and I’m proud of him. Ten years ago, we met him at the Daily 110th anniversary party and had a very interesting talk about the affirmative action suits then pending […]

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Becky story

A rare byline these days! Becky went to Nanjing over the last day or two — what a blur — to interview the Ford CEO. I think the link will work and it’s a free page.

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