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Guard the Milk with Your Life

20 April 2008 | Comment
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As I wait for my friend from Tianjin to arrive at Gulou metro station, I decide to take a seat outside on the wall. When I exit the station, bicycle-powered taxis and motorcycle taxis stop to ask me if I would like a ride to any particular destination. The bicycle-powered taxis aren’t really [...]

Day One as a Chinese Butcher Apprentice

8 April 2008 | 1 comment

I’ve got pork to sell and meat to chop. Today is the first day of my apprenticeship as a Chinese butcher. Last week I visited an open air market in Beijing, not too far from the Bird’s Nest. Open-air markets are a phenomena that seem to occur in just about every developing country in the [...]