Category: China

Damseled Princes

I’m a sucker for gender-flipped stories and the way they shed light on common tropes. A manic pixie dream boy doesn’t teach an uptight female...

Family Travel During Civil Unrest

{I wrote this post in December, 2019, within a couple weeks of returning from Hong Kong. Maybe I still had jetlag, because I found it...

Travel TV

Armchair travel is the only kind of travel these days. But even when times are normal, most of us can’t hop on a plane every...

Inflight Movies

These days, armchair travel is the only kind of travel, so it makes sense to write about movies. I watch a ton of movies, but...

Pink Mama

Marketing is culturally specific. The name of this shop, Pink Mama, raised my eyebrows and made me wonder just what kind of variety of sweets...