Freelance Journalist
It’s been a long, confusing, exhausting federal election season. We’re all tired. But put aside your worries, fellow citizens; it’s time for the invented Chinese names of the 2019 Canadian federal election. If you’ve read my articles on the 2017 BC provincial election or the 2018 Vancouver municipal election, you’ll know I’m fascinated by the [ ]
Last year I wrote an offhand blog post about the phenomenon of non-Chinese political candidates in the BC provincial election inventing their own Chinese names. It was fun, and involved crowd-sourcing photos of election signs from around the Lower Mainland through friends on social media. And, well, it sort of blew up and got a lot [ ]
Let me take you on a journey into the odd but endearing world of invented Chinese names for non-Chinese politicians. With parliament hung, recounts in progress, and no clear resolution in the BC election likely for weeks, what else are you going to do? Here in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, with nearly half [ ]
In the early 20th Century, Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto discovered that 20 per cent of the pea pods in his garden produced 80 per cent of his peas. This, along with the discovery that 20 per cent of landholders in Italy held 80 per cent of the land, presented a general principle which would eventually [ ]
Zhou Guoping. One s Own Pilgrimage. Hunnan People s Press, 2010. Pg 8-9. Trans., Niko Bell. 周国平. 各自的朝圣路. 湖南人民出版社，2010. 8-9页. 译：林文杰. It is often said that people, especially lovers, should share a mutual understanding and empathy, to the point where one is transparent to the other. Albert Schweitzer in Memories of Childhood and Youth, however, says that not only is [ ]
Aibai.com June 22, 2012 The following letter was posted last month on Aibai.com, an influential website in the Chinese gay community. The editors at Aibai have been in contact with the unnamed author, and believe his story to be true. The topic of gay wives women who unwittingly marry closeted gay men has [ ]
Thanks for coming. If you are just joining us, you can still read all of my adventures in China on my old blog here. This new blog is going to be about exploring one of the most Chinese places on earth outside of China Vancouver, British Columbia. I ll let you know what I find. [ ]