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- The China Beat blog today republished my post about the Model UN, introducing this blog to their readers. Thank you China Beat!
- So Huang Yueqin, the director of the National Centre for Mental Health, has said that 100 million people, or 7% of China’s population, is mentally ill. That’s funny: in a recent Beida lecture aimed at foreign students, my teacher told us the total figure of all kinds of disabilities was 6.3%. Get your story straight. (And a response a Chinese friend wrote me on facebook to that 100 million statistic: “Let’s put another zero and it’s not far from the truth, hoho”.)
- I couldn’t resist putting up this clever illustration, from a Japanese blog:
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I studied Mandarin in Beijing, where I began writing this blog in the Olympic summer of 2008