Dear patient reader,
My apologies for the long silence. I've had a lot of travel, and a bunch of life stuff.
I am going to change the format of this, and return in spirit to my blogging roots for the next few weeks as I figure out exactly what the offering here is going to be, and it may just be blogging. Without further ado then, and in place of a summary of the news:
App Life in China
I went to China for a month in June, for the first time since the pandemic, and wrote up some thoughts for ChinaFile: App Life: Notes on a Long-Delayed Return to China (no paywall or registration). It’s a short travelogue that describes some of the ways China has changed in the last decade.
Based on social media reactions, I don’t think I emphasized enough how nice China is in so many ways, and what a delight it has become to travel there. The dystopian side is what readers seem to remember. One person really objected to my snark abou…
