My DEI experience in China 我在中国DEI的经历 I will sometimes tell a story to people about my experience waking up to the flaws of DEI thinking. I will never forget receiving an email from my alma mater sharing how the school would “address a whiteness issue” in the school faculty. Ironically, when I was there I don’t actually remember thatContinue reading “How to Let an Old Wound Heal? Still not Sure如何让旧伤痊愈？依然迷茫”
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Letter from Shanghai: Did COVID actually happen?
We’ve recently returned to Shanghai after 8 months in the US. In the past nearly two decades, this has been the longest period of time I’ve been away from China. I think it was needed. I don’t know how to put it or what phraseology to use. But I think it’s possible that I haveContinue reading “Letter from Shanghai: Did COVID actually happen?”
Longevity and China’s Aviation Pioneer found in the City of Grace and Peace
Very few of us live to be 100 years old. Something like 2% of us perhaps will make it. So, it was rare to celebrate my Chinese grandmother’s centenary this past month. The actual date of her birthday, according to my cousin, is 农历四月初六。This is the fourth day of April in the lunar calendar, or MayContinue reading “Longevity and China’s Aviation Pioneer found in the City of Grace and Peace”
Having Kids in China, Part Two: Chinese love kids, and children provide access to the good ‘ole days
My sister still laughs when this memory comes up. I was back home visiting my mom at her lake house in Michigan years ago. With floor to ceiling windows facing the small and peaceful lake, I couldn’t think of a better place of respite from bustling Beijing. Newspaper in hand, yanking back the lever ofContinue reading “Having Kids in China, Part Two: Chinese love kids, and children provide access to the good ‘ole days”
Having Kids in China, Part One: do as Much as you can yourself.
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again. Having children is probably the only dynamic in life that is absolutely exhausting yet supremely joyful, a uniquely symbiotic paradigm. I know of nothing else like this. Work can be exhausting, but it doesn’t deliver the joy. Companies try to talk up their family culture butContinue reading “Having Kids in China, Part One: do as Much as you can yourself.”
Belonging and Identity: Being an Outsider
One of the things that continues to baffle me is the ratio between the rental cost and the price of purchase for an apartment in downtown Shanghai. It makes no financial sense to buy a place at the current prices nowadays. Consider, the price of the three-bedroom property we live in would sell for theContinue reading “Belonging and Identity: Being an Outsider”
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