Who would your parents choose as a life partner for you given the opportunity? I am not sure I would leave that decision in the hands of anyone else but in China, there is the tradition of parents advertising their offspring to other similarly desperate parents trying to offload their own. People’s Square is the… Read More »
It was dismal day in Shanghai and options to stay warm and dry beyond walking around a shopping mall are few. So it was that we ended up at the Shanghai Urban Planning Museum. Now if ever there was a way of putting people off going to a museum it would be to call it… Read More »
Strange lights in the night sky as beams struck out into darkness about People’s Square. I was drawn by the light, not quite the Christmas star but something akin to it – the Star Wars Force Awakens illuminated glory. Now I am probably one of the few people in the world who has never seen… Read More »