"It was a totally different protocol for mainland bosses"

"I got so sick. I was pretty sure I was dying."

The bizarre park that almost no-one knew about.

"...apparently, it takes two people to end a relationship"

"... it felt like I was showing them a new way for a bicycle to be ridden."

...back into the cold, smoky, drafty rooms picking at fried vegetables and bowls of rice...

"...if I get off this bus, it's over for me"

Losing my Virginity to Chinese; Beijing, Qingdao, and Shanghai

and he gave me a tin pale with ice and a crab in it and told me to use my teeth

Part one in a series of my trips to Shanghai that will finish with my first days of living in Shanghai after the real move.