Friday Happy Hour: Lao Wai Teaches Manners to Beijing Drivers…Professor takes on Wikireality…New "Sexy Beijing" from Danwei.tv

From Ryan’s Life in Suzhou Blog and ESWN: One woman dared to do what almost every foreign visitor to China’s cities wishes they could do at least once in their life: She took the law into her own hands, put her bike on the line, and enforced the traffic laws. A driver trying to sneak through the “bicycle only” lane in his car ran up against a little thing we like to call Justice. The result? Our foreign friend was cursed and threatened but she held her ground and the driver finally gave in. The next driver? He didn’t even try to challenge her. He just meekly slid back into the auto lane. Academics tend to not like Wikipedia. I’m a little ambivalent myself. I’ve read some things on Wikipedia that are just plain silly. (I’ve also read too many student papers with things taken directly from Wikipedia that are just plain silly.) But I’ve got to admit, if I need to look up a quick date or to remind myself of a particular event, I’ve been known to “Wiki” from time to time. Finally, one professor decided to put Wikireality to the test. The results may surprise you.

Jottings from The Peking Duck

Starting this week, I will be a guest blogger/contributing writer over at Richard’s excellent The Peking Duck. TPD has been an institution in the blogosphere for many years and I am looking forward to joining in the always fascinating conversations on that site. This blog will still be my main focus and I will be posting here at the Granite Studio daily with many of my first posts at TPD being cross-postings. In the future, I’d like to focus a bit more on history here and save some of my ‘contemporary’ commentaries for TPD. We’ll see how it goes. It’s been three months since I revived the Granite Studio blog and the appreciation and kind words for this little hobby of mine have been great. Thanks for your continued support, keep checking back daily, and I hope that you will join me in the dialogue on Richard’s site as well.

– 花崗齋之烤鸭

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