Posted in China, Culture, Medicine on Nov 16th, 2008 No Comments »
In the summer of 2005 I left Asia and returned to the USA to practice the medicine of China in Seattle. This blog has been a chronicle of that chapter, and like all chapters there is an end. This is it.
Yong Kang Clinic has changed hands and become Ageless Acupuncture. My address again is Beijing. [...]
Posted in China, Culture, Everyday Acupuncture on Nov 9th, 2008 No Comments »
Unlike Taiwan’s damp wind that blows like a smothering grandmother’s kiss; Beijing’s wall of dry sand filled bluster is like the smack of a binge economy gone on the rocks. Startling in its invisible blinding strength; sheets of dust, sand, now falling leaves, and a confetti of litter all take to the sky and shimmer [...]
Posted in Language on Nov 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
In the first Chinese class I attended in Taiwan there was a very intelligent and well spoke Australian, who had was in the process of repeating this most basic entry level course. For the third time.
His habit of an immaculate English vocabulary was an un-vaultable wall which prevented him from learning to crawl in Chinese [...]
Posted in China, Curiosity on Nov 1st, 2008 No Comments »
This comes from the smoky lobby of a Beijing hotel. Perhaps it will take more than patriotism to advance the cause of public health.