Megan Shank is an editor, writer and translator living in Shanghai, China.
WARNING: I AM USUALLY NOT ONE WHO APPRECIATES STORIES CONTAINING DEFACATION, AND I AM CERTAINLY NOT ONE WHO HAS PREVIOUSLY WRITTEN SUCH A STORY, BUT TODAY’S EVENTS, FOR REASONS UNKNOWN TO MYSELF, DEMAND TO BE TOLD.
There are times in life when one is ruled by the heart, times when one is ruled by the head. [...]
I say damn the mayonnaise and marshmellow salads of our Midwestern American culture. Perhaps the grass and corn took up so much of the landscape that people tired of all that green, which is how such salads came to be born– bovine white and blinking beyond milky dressings. The time has arisen for vegetables [...]
WRITTEN FOR AUGUST 2005 EDITION OF ASIA AND AWAY
Passed around in a 50-year geopolitical struggle, Dalian’s ultimate victory as a Chinese city in the second half of its centennial transformed its most enviable geographical advantages–northeast China’s biggest and last ice free port–into a thriving commercial success. This year, citing that prosperity, its temperate climate, and [...]