· quirkyBeijing was mentioned as one of the Wall Street Journal’s “Best of the China Blogs” for August 15th! · I have been blogging over at CNReviews.com on what it was like in Beijing during the Olympics opening ceremony and how to get Olympic · tickets for “sold out” events. The second post is also [...]
Author Archive > fiona
beijing natives – 北京土著
Beijing is changing, Beijing is gone, Beijing will never be the same again. It’s only been a year since I arrived in Beijing. I only know what I know, the Beijing of today which has catapaulted itself into an Olympic city. Even the city that I know now is very different from the city I [...]
spread the Olympic culture
The Olympics are nearly here, just a few hours to go! In the past few weeks, there have been more Olympic slogan banners around town. Political slogans in China have an interesting and turbulent history, used to spread Maoist thought and disseminate the dreams of the government to the minds of the people. Here is [...]
加油北京！LEGO style
Photos from the HKLUG 2008 Olympics Flickr Set. In the grand tradition of Lego versions of Lord of the Rings, The Bible, and “Thriller”, the Hong Kong LEGO Users Group (HKLUG) have created the Beijing Olympics with Legos. They say that it took 300,000 bricks and 4,500 mini figures to create. Some of the projects, [...]
a relaxing day at longmai hot springs
The main hot spring pool at Longmai. For weeks, we’d been thinking about getting out of the city. It was hot, it was humid, it was polluted, and Beijing was simply getting on our nerves. Dalian was our first choice, but the airfares were too high. We didn’t want to take a train trip anywhere–the [...]
quirkybeijing reads
· China’s Female Artists Quietly Emerge from the New York Times · If you love Chinese indie music, or just love indie period, then check out NeoCha’s NEXT streaming music application. · Hong Kong-based model Elyse Sewell’s blog has been on my reading list for a long time. She has a great sense of fun. [...]
the view from within
I particularly love being in the front or the back of the subway. Here is the view of the subway station and the interior of the conductor’s cab in a Line 1 subway train. Check out the old-fashioned black telephone on the counter–it’s not quite what I expected to see in 2008!
delicious gummy popcorn
You have to wonder who on earth thought it was a good idea to make candy out of popcorn. Sour gummy popcorn. Found at Watson’s, where it sells for 7 RMB. And no, dear reader, I did not buy it. My stomach is churning just thinking about it. I have no problems with eating [...]
the lost deer of china
(Photo by Jiang Jun.) In the south of Beijing, there is a park called Nanhaizi Milu Yuan (南海子麋鹿苑) where the imperial hunting grounds used to lie. This would be interesting in and of itself, but what is even more unusual about this park is that it is dedicated to the preservation of an [...]
quirkyBeijing reads
· An interview with yours truly by Cedric at Comme les Chinois. · In the village of the Yu Family, at Ben Ross’ blog. · How do Chinese internet users express their discontent over the Weng’an incident? Why not do push-ups? From Global Voices. · Where do your clothes come from? A slideshow on Forbes [...]
