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The English Tea Ceremony

Posted on 26/05/2010 by haonowshaokao

…and so on…    

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Continuing domestic upheaval

Posted on 24/05/2010 by haonowshaokao

For the past three months we have been living an easy (if busy) life in a beautiful courtyard, spoiled by one thing; Grandma. She’s not our Grandma, she’s just our landlady – but the smallness of the place and the fact that … Continue reading →

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‘Theft’ and stealing

Posted on 20/05/2010 by haonowshaokao

It’s not exactly becoming for an English teacher to start whining about correct usage of English, and it’s something I try to avoid completely these days. Aside from being fundamentally annoying and probably pointless it also counts as “taking my … Continue reading →

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Where I live

Posted on 17/05/2010 by haonowshaokao

About three months ago we finally managed to escape from Beijing’s suburban high-rise commuterland and found a new house in one of my favourite parts of town, Nanluoguxiang. This is what it looks like, except it’s not really so quiet. … Continue reading →

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Meat in popular music, part two; The Lady In Red (Is Dancing With Meat)

Posted on 10/05/2010 by haonowshaokao
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All Change

Posted on 07/05/2010 by haonowshaokao

I’ve been watching the British election results roll in from my office, and on the whole it’s been a pretty depressing day. The only chinks of gold in the heap of shit are the greens finally winning in Brighton, even … Continue reading →

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Mayday

Posted on 04/05/2010 by haonowshaokao

My various workplaces gave me three days off for the holiday, so my father-in-law-to-be-or-whatever-I-count-him-as invited us to spend the weekend in Tongzhou. As usual we spent a day in the spa next-door – a giant, square faux-roman building which offers … Continue reading →

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Hubei

Posted on 02/05/2010 by haonowshaokao

A couple of weeks ago I went with V down to Hubei to “register”. It’s a bit like getting married, except the wedding itself won’t be for a few years, so best think of it as an engagement. Things didn’t … Continue reading →

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Applied Linguistics As A Foreign Language – English Education in China

Posted on 24/03/2010 by haonowshaokao

This is an article I wrote for the BCALS Newsletter. If you are not an applied linguist your mileage may vary. To an outsider the more practical theories of SLA may seem obscure and parochial, but their influence lives on in a … Continue reading →

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Come to China

Posted on 19/01/2010 by haonowshaokao

I invited quite a few people to come and visit me in China this year. If I didn’t invite you then I probably just forgot. It may seem a little daunting at first, but it’s really not as difficult or … Continue reading →

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