Midterms and all that

Are preventing me from posting.
In other news, the facebook group ‘Stephen Colbert for President’ is the fastest growing group ever, and is causing facebook quite a problem because of the sheer multitude of people joining it. I posted the link to this blog on its wall and got a huge surge in traffic to this [...]

I have a slight suspicion that some of my professors are reading this

Another incentive to take this thing down!

Linking blog

One of the downsides of authoring a blog is the horrible sense of guilt I feel when I think about how long its been since my last update. I’m usually able to block it out of my mind, but I can’t help thinking about poor ol’ Cha Shao Bao when I’m skimming blogs written by [...]

If you’re wondering where I’ve been

and why I haven’t been updating, you’re probably my mother. Hi Mom!
Well, fourth year has turned out to be pretty time consuming. Big surprise. On top of the coursework, my family was in town last week, and this required me to take many a slow and smelly taxi ride from Beijing Normal to their Chaoyang [...]

CCP drops plan that would force netizens to use real names online

According to Mure Dickie at The Financial Times, “China has put aside proposals to force internet users to use their real names when signing up for blogging services – and will now merely encourage them to do so.”
Xinhua reports that decision was made due to objections from blog-hosting companies who were
worried that many users [...]

Back to blogging

As you may have noticed, I’ve been posting much less frequently over the past two weeks. This is because I’ve been working on a major paper about the capacity of China’s Internet to undermine the CCP (for my class on human rights). I’m finally finished with it, and handed it in yesterday!
I hope to post [...]

People really love Shar peis

I haven’t been posting the last couple of days because of midterms and an unfortunate case of strep throat (which made me miss Su Xiaokang’s visit to my journalism class), but, strangely, I’ve noticed a huge spike in the number of visits this site gets. While I like to think it has to do with [...]

Why I call this blog Cha Shao Bao:

I love dim sum.
However, that’s not the full explanation behind the name. Last summer in Beijing, my Cantonese roommate was hankering after some dim sum, so we took a taxi over to the China World Hotel’s Summer Palace, flaunted the dress code and began to order (apparently Summer Palace doesn’t like the hustle and [...]