Shanghai Diaries

Shanghai Diaries is a website about Shanghai, China ... and lots of other stuff. Voted Best Mainland China Blog in the 2004 Asia Blog Awards.

Dispatches from Crazytown

Chris McElwain is an American living in Xi'an,teaching in Northwestern Polytechnical University(西北工业大学). This blog is generally dedicated to the humorous aspects of living in China.

Mobile Disco

I am: Bing; 20; university student; Chinese by birth; American by assimilation. Occasionally, I am gripped by the sharp guilt of trading my heritage for my future. Other times, I am simply so overwhelmed with awe.

Out of the Suburbs, into the Desert

This blog was written mostly between February 2006 and July 2008, when I lived as an English teacher at a university in the northwest of China. I now live in Seattle, where I continue to teach ESL and maintain my interest in China and the Chinese language.

Shanghai Residents Now

Hey you, thanks for stopping by! Given that you're viewing my Blogger profile page, I assume you're digging some scoop on me. I'm flattered. So I started this blog in December 2003, after my husband and I got sick of the DC area and just up and left for Shanghai, China. This blog was our way of sharing the trials and tribulations of living abroad. Following two and a half years in China, we returned to the States in 2006. I characterize my challenging re-assimilation to US suburban life as being an immigrant in my native country. For the next nine months, I busted my butt at a fuel cell startup. Now, I'm joining a government agency dedicated to acquiring and preserving green spaces. Work-life balance: that is the goal. Keep up with what's new: stop by often!

12 months

A British/Australian cultural studies teacher in China, trying to come to terms with the ways of the "middle kingdom" thru photos and comments - Life and experiences are reflected with photos, art, design and musings on China.