Entries by AlanPaul

"Mr. Lilo"

We have been using Mr. Leo , one of the Chinese teaching assistants from Eli’s class, to babysit. He is a very sweet man and the kids all love him. Anna calls him Mr. Lilo, as in the cartoon character. She loves having him read her Chinese books and put her to bed. Last week, […]

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Black tie ball

So they have these big balls here every few weeks.. the Australian Ball, Irish Ball, German Ball, and on and on. They are all black tie affairs. We went to the Australian Ball a few weeks ago and it was a bit of a flop. It just felt so wrong to me. I couldn’t get […]

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More column response

Alan, Sorry to hear about your unsettling incident. In ’94, I felt far safer in Chinese streets than most here, except late at night in crowds in Nanjing, when our Chinesetour guide advised us not to go out alone. Even then I would probably havefelt safer at night there than in a big city of […]

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Early response to the column

I hope I can bother you with a couple of questions on expat housing in Beijing. Are the “housing compounds” you refer to only for Westerners, or do rich Beijingers live there to? If the above answer is rich locals, too, then this question probablydoesn’t matter: Is non-gated housing too hopelessly run down to live […]

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Today’s column

Expat Life: A Murder in Beijing SparksSoul-Searching on Security Our little expat world has been rocked by a murder. An American “trailing spouse” of an energy company executive here in Beijing was killed in her home in the middle of the day. She lived in a nice housing compound just a few miles north of […]

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Interview with Pres. of NBA China

This will be in the April issue of That’s Beijing. In retrospect I certainly could have had some better questions prepared. Five Questions with Mark Fischer, Vice President, NBA China. •The NBA in China really took off in 2002, when Yao joined the league. How much are the two directly related? If he had never […]

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Recent photos

Check out Anna getting ready to go to her first ballet class yesterday with Olivia Moy. I promise tutu pictures within two weeks. Last Saturday we went to the amusement park in Chaoyang Park downtown. We got there late on a frigid day with Eric Rosenblum and family and could only do a couple of […]

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