Bingfeng Teahouse

via: ESWN, see other pix: Humanizing China - Part 1 (Surviving)

There are many people and few train cars, so the people are trying to enter through the windows

The tea bar in a luxury non-stop train between shanghai and beijing

A train passenger without a seat lies down on the seat back

You can enjoy music or movie in the luxury non-stop train between beijing and shanghai

Si He Yuan is a classical architecture style of residential housing of Beijing citizens dated from the Ming Dynasty. The narrow streets between the Si He Yuan are called "Hutong"s. A single implementation of Si He Yuan comprises of garden surrounded by four houses and protected by high walls. Si He Yuan with Hutong which have been very familiar for people, having a history of more than 700 years now suffer from the urban renovation and economic development of China, and they are slowly disappearing from Beijing. ( from: message from a student)

Aerial view of Earth buildings located at Chuxi Village, Xiayang town, Yongding County, in east China's Fujian Province in this picture taken December 10, 2004. The State Bureau of Cultural Relics has applied to UNESCO to place Earth buildings on the World Cultural Heritage List. They are called earth buildings because of their height and their strong, outer shell, which were built with soil and wood by the Hakka people. The mushroom-like structures were once a defense against bandits and marauders. There are about 30,000 earth buildings, dating mostly from the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties, in the Fujian Province, southern and eastern China. Picture taken December 10, 2004. [Reuters] (from: china daily)

story 1:

i once told an american girl i need a snap after lunch, she was really confused and asked me: why you need a snap after lunch? you don't need it, i don't need it. and i was anger with her: i must have a snap after lunch no matter you need it or not. and she said: ok, have your snap after lunch. then i had a nap after lunch, and she asked me: where is your snap? i said i had it. and she said - no no no you didn't have a snap, you had a nap ....

story 2:

a few year ago in beijing. after work, our boss (from hongkong) said why we don't go for dinner together. that's great! we went to a restaurant, small but nice, and had a good dinner. who should pay the bill? the subordinates looked at the boss, and the boss looked at everybody. silence ...... silence ...... silence ...... in china, if the boss asks his/her subordinates for a dinner, it's his/her duty to pay the bill, and in west, people will probably choose to go dutch for such a dinner. but our boss is from hongkong, he thinks we should go dutch but he is not  direct enough to tell us.

what happened at the end, pls have a guess.

via: danwei, see muzimei's new blog: here

i have never read muzimei's sex blog, perhaps will never read it. what interest me is how others and the society react to this disputable public figure in china.

blogchina has a feature on muzimei, below is her pic: