When my small construction materials trading company in Beijing began to see greater sales and turnover, after a two-year struggle.
I came to China with my husband and two small children because of my husband's local real estate business, Home Abroad.
My son has turned 4, but I'm increasingly impatient with him, believing he is too slow in almost everything. However, sometimes I do wonder, what's the hurry?
To say that in the new Wild Wild East of China, anything is possible, may sound like a tiresome clich. But clichs do seem to exist for a reason.
It appears a Hong Kong beauty contest winner has refuted scientist Richard Dawkins' "selfish gene" theory.
For me, beating around the bush is now pass. I communicate with you today - almost six months after I arrived in China - because I want to relive an emotion I never thought I could feel.
Even though I'd only flown halfway around the planet, I felt like I was a world away when I first came to China.
Donald was my PhD advisor in Boston. I have forgotten all of what he had taught me about evolution and molecular biology.
The country's comic laureate, Zhao Benshan, quietly enrolled at Hong Kong's Cheung Kong Graduate School on Monday in order to become a qualified CEO.
Western opera is not as popular in China as Peking Opera so a local angle is sometimes necessary to make it more accessible.
China loves being "est". Biggest, tallest, widest, highest, all words spoken proudly in China to describe buildings, dams, bridges and anything else that a superlative adjective can be applied to.
The big strawberries on the Beijing market remind me of my first spring here back in 1991.