http://www.yongkangclinic.com/blog Chinese medicine in modern life Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:29:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. ... http://www.yongkangclinic.com/blog/stepping-stones-across-the-river/ 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 ... http://www.yongkangclinic.com/blog/windstorm/ 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 ... http://www.yongkangclinic.com/blog/language/ This comes from the smoky lobby of a Beijing hotel. Perhaps it will take more than patriotism to advance the cause of public health. http://www.yongkangclinic.com/blog/lets-hear-it-for-patriotism/ 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 ... http://www.yongkangclinic.com/blog/snapshots-of-the-middle-kingdom/ 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 ... http://www.yongkangclinic.com/blog/pride-and-prejudice/ 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 ... http://www.yongkangclinic.com/blog/arriving-beijing/ The Vancouver International Airport is a marvel of art and engineering, waterfalls and environment sounds, soaring curving roofs and glassy mazes that are completely in contrast to American cattle corrider and utilititian squares. Water sounds and saltwater smells greet the weary traveler as they enter the great hall of immigration. It ... http://www.yongkangclinic.com/blog/yvr/ Somewhere on the road between Wuyi Shan and Jiuhua Shan there was a town that involved in a bus change. It was the summer of 2005. Anwei Province Chinese summer hot, with a roasting heat that vied with the humidity and gritty air. Restrooms in Chinese bus stations are by ... http://www.yongkangclinic.com/blog/jet-travel-american-style/ 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 ... http://www.yongkangclinic.com/blog/until-west-becomes-east/