By Katrina Beikoff*
We’ve been away from Shanghai for two weeks. And have now come home.
It is the first time we have ever referred to Shanghai as home.
It’s something I wasn’t entirely sure would ever happen.
It wasn’t that we desperately missed China — lounging on white sandy beaches, spending hours in the sea, exploring rock […]
Author: Lynne Wymore Moo
My husband moved to Shanghai for his job.
I moved to Shanghai to travel.
In the pre-baby days, we organized our vacation time down to the minute. We analyzed each of our allotted holidays, layered them over our given time-off, and maximized each minute. We jumped planes all over […]
By Katrina Beikoff*
I am thinking of making a Chinese version of a ridiculous show — that absolutely tickled me — I once saw.
It was called ”How far From the Beach is it Acceptable to Wear Your Underwear?” Or something like that.
It started with a guy wearing white Y-fronts on Bondi Beach, where few beach-goers looked […]
By Katrina Beikoff*
I discovered a new park the other day. It’s less than a block from my home.
Birds chirping had been greeting us most mornings, yet the source of such trilling, utterly incongruous with the normal morning cacophony of horns blasting, engines revving, bellowing and barking, eluded me.
I’d failed to find anything other than the […]
By Katrina Beikoff*
Maybe it’s the heat, the change of seasons, or the phase of the moon, but sleeping has been a real problem lately.
Having unsettled children bailing on their own beds, then tossing and turning throughout the night in our bed has turned into a real pain in the neck, literally.
Somehow my partner managed to […]
In Annie Wang’s naffly titled, but entertainingly informative ‘‘People’s Republic of Desire,’’ there’s a little bite amongst the racy exploits of the lead character and her girlfriends, spun-out self-analysis and yearning for lost love that caused me angst.
I reference Wang’s 2006 novel — one of the many things I have tried to absorb in aid […]
I was thrilled arriving at the hospital that sunny September morning to give birth excited that I would finally be getting to meet my precious baby. I was the picture of health, a low risk pregnancy. I didn’t even think twice about signing the admission documents that I consented to a blood transfusion in the […]
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I write this after living in Shanghai for only four months. Four months is not a long time at all, however it means my memories of our move and relocation experience are still very fresh in my mind.
One of the resounding questions common amongst expatriates prior to their move is “which side of the river […]
I can almost accurately predict the response that follows when I tell people we currently reside in Shanghai.
“Oh, you must be a “Tai Tai” (太太)…(insert envy laden look)…so good” .
Do you get that too? Or is it just me?
“Tai Tai” (太太), a term often used in these parts of the world to refer […]
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