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 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.
Posted in China, Culture, Wellness on Oct 26th, 2008 No Comments »
Xinzuobiao is a vertical community just out past the Fang Zhuang exquisite food street; where the towering new China bumps up against city peasant markets, broken pavement, dust and Soviet era utilitarian boxes of concrete. The subway with its new Olympic induced lines flow new underground rivers of people as the roadways triple park themselves [...]
Posted in China, Culture, Travel on Oct 15th, 2008 No Comments »
They litter the corners of intersections like giant green boxy roaches; gather in clusters at the exits of subways and massive shopping malls. In Chinese they are joking referred to as “electric donkeys.” They serve as three wheels of cheap convenience. For half the price of a taxi, two people can turn a half hour [...]
Posted in China, Culture, Travel on Oct 11th, 2008 1 Comment »
All places have their oddities, annoyances and delights. China should be different from no other place, yet perhaps because it is such a land of contrasts; peasants bicycling mountains of recycle on a 12 lane rush hour highway, as traffic honks its way past a hodge-podge of Soviet concrete boxes lost amidst the wild spring [...]
Posted in China, Culture, Travel, Wellness on Sep 11th, 2008 1 Comment »
Gratitude is the first thing that comes to mind.
The splash of summer flowers spilling out into a sidewalk draped in September blue sky.
The smell of vegetables off gassing fecund fields.
Travelers and locals allowing life, for a moment, to unwind outside the their usually consensual reality.
Seasons of salmon gray rain that warp time with its incessant [...]
Posted in China, Curiosity, Travel on Dec 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Travel can easily be broken into two general categories. The time you are in places and the time you are between them. One is about settling, the other, movement. The Chinese would just say it’s Yin and Yang.
I see it more as Doing, and being Done To.
“Brakes bu ling” 刹車不靈
This is NOT what you [...]
Posted in China, Health, Wellness on Nov 12th, 2007 1 Comment »
One of my favorite breakfasts in China is a steaming hot bowl of beef noodle soup. Sure, it might sound a bit odd from our western breakfast point of view, but a nice hot bowl of noodles swimming in a nourishing bone simmered broth, with the protein of “hong shao” beef is one of [...]
Posted in China, Taiwan, Travel on Nov 1st, 2007 No Comments »
It finally rained after an accumulated humidity, like the slow build up to a good cry, there was a feeling of relief in hearing the rain fall into my last night of this journey to China.
Arriving early for the Guangzhou to Kowloon train, riding up several levels of escalators, and then through a giant expanse [...]