Someone call Professor Oak, because I’ve officially caught them all. I had already traveled through most of China in the late 1990s, but Qinghai was the last one – the one place I had never been. I finally made the trip last week, and just to celebrate the occasion, the gods of travel decided toContinue reading “Qinghai – and the best yoghurt in China”
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Milk of Mongolia
Did you know that I am very interested in milk? Most people who have spent more than two minutes with me tend to become aware of that, at which point they decide that two minutes was already more than enough, thank you. I am still in Hulunbuir, having had a very eventful couple of weeks,Continue reading “Milk of Mongolia”
Zhangjiakou – terminus of the Mongol trade
For years I have wanted to visit Zhangjiakou. Sure everyone says they want to go there, but how many people actually do? Wait – what I meant was that nobody says they want to go there. In fact, why don’t you just go ahead and enjoy that first sentence again, since I’m fairly sure that nobodyContinue reading “Zhangjiakou – terminus of the Mongol trade”
Cows in Hong Kong (no brisket)
And… now I am in Hong Kong! If there are two more different places on this planet than Bozeman, Montana and Hong Kong, I have yet to see them. Strangely, one thing that the two places share in common is cows. Let me explain. The way we see the world is situational. If you are hungry, youContinue reading “Cows in Hong Kong (no brisket)”
Montana! (smoked beef brisket)
Grass-fed beef is delicious, but in the words of Tommy Chong, can you smoke it?
Leizhou festivals in town and country
I made these short videos a few years back, after Robert Antony kindly allowed me to tag along on one of his field trips to the Leizhou peninsula in the far south of Guangdong province. They show two sets of celebrations for Tianhou (the Empress of Heaven). Village processions in the countryside And in the Tianhou TempleContinue reading “Leizhou festivals in town and country”
abai 阿拜
No, they’re not “Taiwanese tamales”
Yellow Earth
From 15-18 September, the CUHK History and Anthropology AOE and Shaanxi Normal University arranged a field seminar in and around Xi’an. The itinerary was arranged by Micah Muscolino at Oxford, and took us to about 8 villages in Baishui 白水县 and Chengcheng 澄城县 Counties, along with a large scale water reclamation project, and two gorgeousContinue reading “Yellow Earth”
Lyme disease
Here is a picture of our awesome outing to the springs and oboo in Weinahe. Looks nice doesn’t it? Other than the fact that we finally have some good photos for our album of 90s college rock, do you by chance notice anything about these pictures? Anything that perhaps separates one of us from the others? That’s right, oneContinue reading “Lyme disease”
Hulunbuir
I’m back, baby!
Thomas David DuBois 