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Illegal Baby part 2: I fought the law and the law won

Posted Sunday, October 05, 2008 4:01 AM by will
Regular readers will recall that Imagethief became a father earlier this year. Having a child requires new parents to undertake many unfamiliar responsibilities. These include the obvious, such as the care and feeding of an infant, and some things that Read More...
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Jingjing and Chacha live?

Posted Wednesday, September 10, 2008 6:25 AM by will
These two have been patrolling my housing complex for the past week. I haven't seen them make any collars yet, but I've been surfing much less sm*t than usual, just in case: Note : Don't know who Jingjing and Chacha are? Click here . Or, to see them in Read More...
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Will we all burn in a fire made of mooncake packaging?

Posted Friday, September 05, 2008 5:35 AM by will
Imagethief likes the Mid-Autumn Festival. I like it because even though it actually comes in late summer, it reminds me of autumn, and autumn is famously the nicest time of year in Beijing. In any year devoid of Olympic rigging, late summer in Beijing Read More...
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Would sir like lung cancer or deafness with his old age?

Posted Thursday, August 28, 2008 9:53 PM by will
Like a giant kid who's been holding a fart in during a three week elevator ride, Beijing has apparently relaxed its many industrial sphincters and let a big one rip. That's the only way I can explain the lighting-fast deterioration in air quality. In Read More...
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Good to see Guangzhou has its priorities straight

Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 6:53 AM by will
From the "you couldn't make it up" department here in Imagethief Towers, an old-school China Daily gem: City gets tough on foreign jaywalkers By Zhan Lisheng (China Daily) The southern Chinese city of Guangzhou is taking stern action against foreigners Read More...
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E-Z steps to make your own Beijing air at home

Posted Wednesday, July 30, 2008 1:12 AM by will
Imagethief realizes that he and much of the journalistic and blogging community have been doing a grave disservice to our readers who don't live in Beijing. We beg your forgiveness. Living in Beijing is such an all-consuming experience that we sometimes Read More...
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You are liable for any misuse of the contents of the advice

Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 12:51 AM by will
I've been looking at this message for the past four years: "You are liable for any misuse of the contents of the advice". Some of you may recognize this as the warning that all Chinese ATMs give you if you have the temerity to ask for a printed transaction Read More...
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2007 best-of-Imagethief and statistics

Posted Tuesday, February 05, 2008 11:01 PM by will
There is no such thing as a dull year in China. 2008 is well underway and already looks like another whopper. We're only a month in and we've already had the biggest storms in half a century. The Olympics, the mother of all China events, is now a scant seven months off. God only knows what will happen in between. Read More...
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Ich Bin Ein Beijinger: Beijing reloaded

Posted Sunday, January 27, 2008 9:26 PM by will
I pinch-hit for Kaiser on the back page of That's Beijing's January issue. Thanks to my stint in Shanghai it's the first time in nearly a year that I've written something for them. Fittingly, I wrote about moving back to Beijing from Shanghai. The column Read More...
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Secret Santa's revenge

Posted Monday, December 17, 2007 12:06 AM by will
A few days ago Imagethief, in maximum Grinch mode, wrote a long rant on the miserable office ritual of " secret santa " gift programs. In that post I agonized about how awful I am at buying cheap presents for people I don't know. It seems I'm not the Read More...
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I hate secret Santa

Posted Tuesday, December 11, 2007 3:09 AM by will
Imagethief likes the holiday season. He is not one of those December curmudgeons who bah-humbugs his way through Christmas. Give me trees, tinsel, candy canes and a big dinner with my friends. My dad used to roast a goose for Christmas. How traditional Read More...
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Hairy crabs, the hill of pain and the boulevard of a thousand massage touts

Posted Wednesday, November 21, 2007 6:14 AM by will
Imagethief went for a hike with some good friends on Sunday. Hiking is one of the things that I was sorry to give up when I moved to Shanghai, and that I've been most eager to rediscover upon my return. In Shanghai you can drive for days through the industrial Read More...
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Further adventures in glamorous international travel

Posted Monday, November 12, 2007 10:17 AM by will
Having arrived in Macau, the romance continues. First was immigration, where the lines crawled as officers stamped arriving passengers in with the indifferent sloth that seemed circa Vietnam, 1996. My immigration officer painstakingly inspected every Read More...
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Reconsidering a glamorous life of international travel

Posted Monday, November 12, 2007 8:25 AM by will
In the cold and revealing light of hindsight it seems that aspiring to a life of international travel and adventure was, perhaps, not the wisest possible choice. This revelation dawned upon Imagethief this afternoon as he patrolled Beijing’s Capital International Read More...
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Just what Beijing needs: A giant Ferris wheel

Posted Tuesday, November 06, 2007 6:46 AM by will
Proving that there is no idea so unoriginal that it can't be rejuvenated by making it bigger, Beijing has announced plans for a colossal Ferris wheel . This, it is claimed, will be larger than both the famous London Eye (destroyed by the Fantastic Four Read More...
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