This is important, because outside China little is known of this world where the west and the far east have been interacting for centuries, and increasingly inside China this interaction is portrayed as a shallow and wholly negative experience. What hasn’t changed on Kulangsu is just as pleasi...
I initially tried to explain that perhaps tooth replacement wasn’t all that simple, but this bloke was having none of it, insisting that all would be well if I handed over one of my incisors in return for some cash. He actually got quite aggressive: I had to dive into a monastery ...
so that an e-mail from a civil servant who was directly involved in a decision would carry more weight than the same message from a civil servant who, though with an interest in the decision, was not directly involved in making it. Traditionally...