A Very Chinese New Year Celebration

正After living in China’s capital for close to three years,I’d like to think I’ve become fairly familiar with Beijing’s Spring Festival routine.The subways and streets become deserted as millions of out-of-towners leave for home and locals stay in to gather with friends and relatives,eat dumplings and watch the CCTV New Year’s Gala.There are hongbao envelopes and there are firecrackers.     

Running the Xiamen Marathon

In early January,I arrived in Xiamen alone,determined to run my first marathon.After pounding countless km on the Beijing streets and sidewalks bordering Tsinghua University,where I’m enrolled as a Master’s student in journalism,I knew I was ready.Originally,my plan was to run the Beijing Marathon in October.     

Volunteer Teaching

正Iwalked into the schoolroom in Wuwei County, east China’s Anhui Province, without theslightest clue of what to expect.I’d joined the Summer Service Learning Project at Tsinghua University for an adventure; to experience a chunk of China I hadn’tseen before. Through the project,small groups of six or seven Tsinghua     

Social Expectations in China

I remember the scene vividly:Late last year,I was eating lunch with a Chinese friend who was obviously upset.When I met her at the gate of the student canteen,she tried her best to make small talk,but something was clearly wrong.Her head hung low,her eyes were glued to the floor,and she     

The propensities to consume labour and property incomes in the commonwealth Caribbean

This article outlines theoretically the aggregate savings implications of differences in business and personal savings propensities. Time series empirical tests for two developing economies generate the conclusion that the marginal business savings rate is much higher than the marginal personal savings rate. For double‐log consumption functions differences in the personal propensity to consume labour and property incomes are substantial and statistically significant.     

The unheeded present and the impossible future: temporalities of relocation after Typhoon Haiyan

Recovery plans were developed for both the Philippines and Tacloban City in particular. They framed Haiyan as a climate change emergency, and sought to respond to future risks to the city and country. This focus on future recovery came at the expense of attention to the transitional needs of those worst affected by the Typhoon. International humanitarian organizations were co-opted into the government’s refusal of transitional assistance to Tacloban City shoreline residents. This was because they construed their mandate of apolitical assistance in a particular way. An alternative framing of emergency deployed by a local organization produced a very different result. In order to respond to the range of temporal needs in post-disaster situations, humanitarian actors need to be cognizant of the range of epistemic frameworks available to them.     

The Golden Week Wall

Typically,when China’s weeklong National Day holiday rolls around on October 1,I cringe at the thought of traveling anywhere outside of Beijing.Doing so requires battling crowds of unimaginable scale,when seemingly everyone in the capital,all 20 million,packs up a few suitcases with clothes and instant noodles and makes a mad dash for a train or bus station.During the past Golden Week,at least     

Torn Down

正Biking toward the village, where I should have seen nothing but rare Beijing darkness, I saw a gleaming new Holiday Inn-complete with valet park- ing and big, gaudy columns. It is a route I took every day in August 2008, to get to the Olympic wrestling