Idle Words

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China

    Inoculated
    Preparing for China, hotbed of deadly inscrutable diseases.

  1. The Day That Nothing Happened
    Celebrating the anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre at a Beijing WalMart

    Dirty Old Town
    Summertime in the Beijing dust bowl.

    I Spy
    An improptu visist to Beijing's easiest-to-blunder-into secret aerospace facility.

  2. A Letter From Sichuan, On Pandas
    Two brief dispatches from Chengdu.

  3. A Tour of Chongqing
    Adventures in blissful incomprehension.

    Down the Yangtze
    Floating down the Chang Jiang with a boatload of friendly Chinese tourists.

  4. It's Always Christmas in Wuhan
    Musical street cleaning trucks, "English for Wuhan Taxi Drivers", Asian Colonel Sanders.

  5. On Haggling
    Learning to not pay ten times full price in Shanghai.

    Sex In Shanghai
    Scowling matron, plastic ass.