by Angel Hsu | Jul 16, 2012 | Sights
Outside my apartment in Beijing, residents of a neighboring building have taken to the streets to protest the management’s decision to shut off power and hot water for the day. Apparently there was a disagreement between the previous and current management that...
by Angel Hsu | Jul 11, 2012 | Sights
The above quote is from an article in the Global Times regarding the recent environmental protests against a heavy-metals refinery in Shifang, which is located in Sichuan province. Thousands of Chinese citizens have taken to the streets to protest, and it’s...
by Angel Hsu | Jul 10, 2012 | Sights
Last Saturday evening, I attended my first Beijing Community Dinner, which featured Li Bo, the outgoing director of Beijing’s oldest NGO, Friends of Nature. He spoke about the the first non-victim public interest environmental lawsuit Friends of Nature and other...
by Angel Hsu | Jul 10, 2012 | China, Sights
Great news – Beijing finally has a bike-sharing program! Now I don’t have to worry when the next time my bike is stolen (notice I said *when and not *if), where I’ll be able to easily get a set of wheels to help navigating Beijing’s extremely...
by Angel Hsu | Jul 10, 2012 | Sights
Last Saturday, I attended a talk that featured Joy Chen, an Asian-American woman who was the former Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles. It was interesting that she wrote a book for Chinese women, “Don’t marry before you’re 30,” that supposedly tells...
