Blog Author - Nick Skidmore

Page Turners: Revisiting Lao She
Today Lao She is remembered for mostly three things: first, his novel Rickshaw Boy, bringing to life the urban chaos of Beijing’s street life;...
Apology Rejected: Apologies to My Censor is Pages of Missed Opportunity
Mitch Moxley, as he likes to remind his reader, is something of a celebrity in Beijing’s expat circles. An aspiring journalist who found himself...
Book Review: Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China
The expat is a curious species, especially the China variety – so often found shunning the local language for a dialect more given to bragging...