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Into the World: The Random Thoughts in My Mind

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In the Age of Vlogging for All, Journalist Visa No Longer Makes Sense

The government signaled displeasure with the reporting by revoking the journalistic privilege of several correspondents...goes the typical back-and-forth between authoritarian regimes and critical (often Western) media outlets. Thos...


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Those Who Seek to Protect a Privilege Forgets That "Good" Can be Defined in Many Ways

Outside the imposing, vertical stone walls that enclose the hilltop fortress jutting into the sea is another Valletta. There, the few tourists battle crumbling passageways hugging the rugged coastline, cold sweat breaking out as they come face to face with narrow paths where their feet are inches away from a steep drop into the raging ocean below. But they also come out into ...


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Chongqing Shows the Pitfalls and Opportunities of a Social Media-Fueled Tourism Boom

"Chongqing was cool, but after seeing all the social media posts about the city...something was just missing for me." The German guy I met at the hostel in Chengdu had this to say when I inquired about his impression of my next destination. Seeing the ambivalence on his face was a bit worrying. After all, like him and millions of others, I was drawn to visit the city because ...


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What Does the Prevalence of Squat Toilets in China Says About Her Version of Modernity?

For many people, a squat toilet represents backwardness. In the olden days, a hole in the floor opened up to a smelly cesspit, from which farmers shoveled excrement into their fields for free manure. Grimy public bathrooms in third-world countries are almost always portrayed by broken, dark squatters with flies buzzing above. In contrast, Japan, commonly portrayed as the


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Grandpa's death reminds me of why sometimes, delayed gratification is not worth it
The 30-year-old man in the black-and-white photo smiled at me, his happiness at perhaps his first time in Beijing for work still visible more than 60 years after the fact. Yet, moments later, I found myself ripping the beautifully preserved photo in half; the arbitrary split in the brittle paper ran through that very smile, a stark reminder of a sudden but entirely unceremonious...

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