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Big in China Excerpt: Laoshi Yechen on Fake Monks

I read this WSJ China Real Time with great interest: A fake monk scandal scars one of the country's sacred mountains.  It got me thinking and prompted me to post this Big in China excerpt about my Chinese teacher turned monk Yechen. He…

Chinese pollution and the Beijing Blues

I will be very happy when this Big in China excerpt about living with the horrible, pea-soup pollution seems like old, oudated news. But over the past few days, the pollution readings have reached beyond "really awul" to "just insanely, unbelievably…