Note: items appear in date order of writing from August 1998
to September 2000
...Introduction / 1.Shanghai Arrival / 2. A Dream of Red Mansions
..in which our hero is duchessed / 3.
WTUSM Welcome Dinner / 4.
Bicycle Wars / 5.
Barefoot Dentistry ... in which our hero fails to ride a
bicycle / 6. Two Thousand Steps to
the Mountain / 7.
Chinese Medley ... a symphony orchestra teaches
the masses / 8. An Upper Middle
Class Evening / 9. Paralysis - The Core Problem with Chinese Universities
/ 10. Foreign Experts Plant Trees ...on being a VIP / 11. Chinese Tooth Torture / 12.
Letter Home / 13. New China: Reflections on Political Rage / 14. Fake Dream / 15. Living With China Upside Down and
Backwards / 16. A Red, Black & White Culture / 17. Strolling / 18.
Dining with the Governor / 19. The Rag Trade / 20. When a Dog is as Tall as a Man
/ 21. The Outside Track
on Happiness / 22.
Sinned Against / 23. Horse Horse Tiger Tiger / 24. Video Wisdom / 25.
City Traveler / 26.
Apples to Go / 27. All's Fair / 28. The Chinese Economic Union??
/ 29. Mei Guanxi - Back
with the Dentists / 30. The General('s)
Hospital / 31. Whimsy, Where are You?
/ 32. The Photograph / 33. Silence of the Elders / 34.The Dialects
of Wuhan / 35. Silk Barrier / 36. A Business Proposal / 37. Virtue versus the Quick Buck / 38. Sisyphus and the Rock of Education /
39. The Factory Visit / 40. Scooter Babes / 41. Notes on Cantonese / 42. The
Bamboo Cage / 43. Goodies & Baddies
/ 44. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed
man is king / 45. Corruption in Chinese
English exams (note from a reader) / 46. The boarding kindergarten / 47. Till Death Do Us Part / 48. Dining Out on Laundry Soap / 49. When is a Museum a Museum? / 50. Honesty, Spirit and the Communist Way / 51. The Bad Old Days of Planned Theft /
52. Funeral by the Lake / 53. Modern Dance Ballet / 54. The Suit / 55. Departures
/ 56. Chinese Moments
/
Postscripts : 1. Letter from a Chinese Postgraduate (2003) /