Over the last few days we checked out the Impressionist Night River Show in Yangshuo. It was choreographed by the man who did the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony. The story was told with the Li River as the stage, the lit Karst Mountains as backdrop and hundreds of locals as the actors. It was visually stunning. Our favorite scenes were the ones with torches held by fisherman floating on their bamboo rafts and reflected on the river, an elaborate sequence with ...

It's really not legitimate to write a blog while in China using a structure that's organized in a traditional western format. It would be against all that's "natural" to the Middle Kingdom where everything is kaleidoscopic and comically absurd. So in that spirit here goes... Horn honking again. The man is hitting his child while on the ground with a towel. More firecrackers explode and this time it's no less than a few feet from my ears. Can these women ple...