A familiar looking font: This drink shop in Guilin didn't seem as lively as Chalmun’s Cantina in Mos Eisley though.

At a newsstand in Guilin

One of the popular locations for enjoying the view and taking some photos at Diecai Hill For some tourists, Guilin is just a city to f...

Taiwan Beer or Tsingtao?

Last December at the Ningbo Railway Station, I saw yet another example of advertising for Yanghe Distillery's blue-bottled brands of ba...

Early this year at the Funing Cultural Park (福宁文化公园) in Xiapu, Fujian Posting lately has been lighter than I intended as I have been t...

1. Dennis Normile details the fascinating and potentially far reaching tug of war over the priorities for China's next major telescope ...

It has been a while since I have done the "assorted links" thing. Time to get back to it with excerpts from four pieces worth a f...

Just a block away from the baijiu advertisement I saw at Huangxing Square in Changsha was another visually striking advertisement. One bil...

Next to the Saint Sophia Cathedral in Harbin (September 2016)

At Nanhu Park in Hengyang, Hunan

A year ago I shared scenes from a vigil in Hong Kong commemorating the anniversary of the crackdown at Tiananmen Square . The post also inc...