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Mar 29, 20201 min read

Bài Tập: Sum Họp

Vietnamese Writing Practice III. Đề tài của bài tập lần cuối cùng tôi viết là "Ngày Lễ Tình Nhân Một Mình". Khi đó tôi ở một mình là bởi...

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ShanghaiLiving2020

Mar 29, 20204 min read

Into the Light

Emerging from Isolation (Partially) I’m sat writing this in Larry and Friends, my favourite neighbourhood coffee shop, with a caramel...

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ShanghaiLiving2020

Mar 14, 20205 min read

Tulou Pt. I

The Fortified Villages of Southern Fujian. I was rifling through my big cardboard box of tea the other day, looking for something...

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ShanghaiLiving2020

Mar 5, 20204 min read

Mr. More-or-Less (A Short Story by Hu Shi)

Mencius once said: Those who have never translated Mr. More-or-Less, are no true students of Chinese (未曾译差不多先生者，非中文之徒也). Granted, that...

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ShanghaiLiving2020

Feb 29, 20207 min read

State of the Month: February 2020

Going Viral. Summary of Events and Other Things: - Learning is fun - Monthly reading - A brand new job - Living in lock-down - Missing my...

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ShanghaiLiving2020

Feb 24, 202012 min read

Learning Vietnamese: The Struggle so Far

Lazy Sailing, Breakthroughs, and the Benefits of Knowing Chinese. Last year, I wrote a post for my previous, aborted blog to celebrate...

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ShanghaiLiving2020

Feb 20, 20201 min read

Bài Tập: Ngày Lễ Tình Nhân Một Mình

Vietnamese Writing Practice II. Thứ sáu tuần trước là ngày lễ tình nhân, nhưng tôi không thể ăn được một bữa tối lãng mạn với vợ yêu của...

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ShanghaiLiving2020

Feb 16, 20203 min read

为何而坚持

一篇于一年多前写的文章，今天终于问世。对我，写作是一个充满绝望和失败感的事业。每当心血来潮、满怀兴奋和热情地跑进书房去写一篇纷纭芜杂的文章时，不到一半便为自己的无力感所扫兴了，一桶冷水浇头。因此我最近开始写的文章十有八九篇没有完成，博客很久没见到动静。...

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ShanghaiLiving2020

Feb 8, 202011 min read

Branching out into Modern Chinese Literature

A Few Possible Places to Start (You Should Totally Start). One of my main impetuses for starting this new blog was a desire to delve...

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ShanghaiLiving2020

Feb 2, 20205 min read

Home Sweet Home

Our Little Work in Progress. It occurs to me that I still haven't written anything about our new flat, other than poking fun at it for...

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ShanghaiLiving2020

Jan 29, 20206 min read

The People's Trilogy +1

Frank Dikötter's Snapshots of Popular Misery in the Era of Mao. Towards the end of last year, under the awkwardly contrived notion of...

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ShanghaiLiving2020

Jan 25, 20204 min read

Happy New Year of the Rat

Or Should That be Mouse? Chinese can be an annoyingly vague language at times and, at least in common parlance, both rodents share an...

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ShanghaiLiving2020

Jan 22, 20202 min read

Bài Tập: Ngôi Nhà Mới

Vietnamese Writing Practice I. So, I said I would be trying to compose a few sentences in Vietnamese on a regular basis to help with my...

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ShanghaiLiving2020

Jan 20, 20207 min read

First Things First

A Brand New Year, a Brand New Start. As I mentioned in the last post, we’ve recently moved home. Having spent a number of years living in...

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ShanghaiLiving2020

Jan 18, 20203 min read

What Better Place Than Here?

What Better Time Than Now? Right, let’s get this thing rolling. Over the years I’ve made plans for a number of blogs relating to one...

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