Megan Shank is an editor, writer and translator living in Shanghai, China.
Adam and I have moved to Shanghai where we’re currently setting up. Today we found an apartment next to China Normal University — lovely and quiet and next to a small park with enough room to run in the morning. We also have new phone numbers. During the next week, I have interviews lined up [...]
My friend Joon recommended I read this CJR piece by Robert Kaplan. It’s brilliant. In Chinese, there’s an expression, “I have a belly full of what I’d like to say.” Kaplan took care of it for me.
Here’s the link: http://www.cjr.org/issues/2006/1/kaplan.asp
Here’s an excerpt:
Cultivating Loneliness
By Robert D. Kaplan
Reporting — one of history’s oldest professions, [...]
Recently received an email from my boyfriend’s sister praising the animations, “Dancing Animals in Love,” and “Binge and Purge.”
To my delight and surprise, when I called them up to watch, they turned out to be the work or an old college friend, Ben Meinhardt.
Ben and I lived in the same college slum neighborhood for [...]
Recently returned from Harbin where Adam and I took a five day holiday.
1. The Ice Festival(s)
Both the festival outside of the city and the festival within Zhaolin Park froze me with wonder — both because the sights are so glorious and the weather is so cold.
There’s the monumental…
The 40-foot-tall Buddha, the winding Great Wall, [...]