No, you’re not looking at some cheese-smothered Photoshop job, these pictures are the amazing artwork of Liu Bolin, a 35-year-old artist from Shandong. Liu’s attention to detail and precision positioning make it appear as if he is invisib...

I’m going to be honest.  I don’t really know how to write an introduction for this.  You all know the story by now.  H1N1 is going around and it is either a media creation or a harbinger of the apocalypse.  So I would like to apologize in advance...

As an English teacher at a 6,000-strong middle school in the northwest of Hunan province, I come into contact with several hundred students a day.  My course load puts me in front of roughly 850 students a week.  In a school as cramped as mine, the...

Another great photo from Beijing-based photographer Zhao Hua Xi Shi, previously “Elephant on a Bicycle”. I encourage everyone to browse through this talented self-taught photographer’s photostream. The photos do an amazing job of telling intricate and...

Ever wonder what happens when an edutaining Chengdu traffic cop runs square into China’s fēi zhǔliú culture? Well, wonder no longer. Thanks to the relatively new blog, Veggie Discourse, having subtitled this in English, we can all enjoy a...

Now back to my regularly scheduled language beat, I’d like to share a couple of links with you that should help put the study of Chinese into perspective. First, Ben Ross debunks the myth that Chinese is the hardest language to learn in the world,...