Megan Shank is an editor, writer and translator living in Shanghai, China.
I’ve been trying to, as they say, “build a wardrobe” recently. This is not an easy job for all the obvious reasons but also for all the not obvious reasons as well.
In China, the largest size one may find in women’s wear is an 8, which in of itself is rare. I wear a [...]
As 2006 brings us within two years of the Olympics, more papers, magazines and online publications are bound to dispatch their most famous journalists to China for the two week glad-handling tours that will invariably result with these chuckleheads writing leads such as:
They say the national bird of China is the blue-eared pheasant, but [...]
THIS IS A FIVE-DAY VERSION OF EVENTS, SPLIT INTO FIVE FEATURES, EACH OF APPROXIMATELY 1,000 WORDS.
Monday
As the train snorts up the courage to depart this smog-choked capital city of Henan Province, Zhengzhou, which is fading into the darkness of the quickening October dusk, I find myself clinging to a bravado built up from my [...]
I just finished reading, “Possession,” by A.S. Byatt, which was fascinating on many levels. One of the elements that gave me some food for thought was the idea of winter story telling. Two of the main characters, in their efforts to piece together the relationship of two English Victorian poets, visit the French countryside where [...]