I can now recommend the mobile phone unlocking service at The Travel Insider. This worked smoothly and quickly (even though I had to be without my phone for a few days, sending it to Washington State–some phones can be unlocked remotely but not mine), and I now have a Chinese mobile number, in my own […]

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Europeans joke about the way Americans drink milk, and there are a lot of ads for adult milk drinking (all those white mustaches on celebritities). But no one I know, except my teenage daughter, drinks milk by the glass on a regular basis, except as an occasional comfort treat with a hot brownie or fresh […]

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Make it easier for foreigners to spend money.
Improve English signage.

Make it easier for foreigners to spend money
Very few places, apart from hotels and big tourist restaurants and stores, take credit cards. This would not be too bad if the ATMs were much easier to find […]

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The October issue of Guanxi will be out in a couple of days. Our subject this month is tourism, and it was apt to find this article in the Wall Street Journal Briefing this morning about the heated competition underway for new flights to China:
“While the U.S. has open aviation agreements with most major nations, […]

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I’m blogging about my experiences in China (I’ve been in Beijing and Guangzhou and am now in Shanghai) on the Berkshire Blog and hope you’ll pop across to that site!

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I want to learn how to use the Metro, which should make getting around big, crowded, polluted Beijing a lot easier, and I couldn’t ask for more than this site provides, from instructions to photos, a recording of the station announcements and even a clip with the Chinese for “Where’s the nearest subway station?” All […]

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