the Anthill | a writers' colony
Alec Ash
Mutant Palm – Formerly Musing Under The Tenement Palm
Description: young Chinese in new China
June 2, 2016
Your humble blogger rises from the ashes for one last post before this (now very) old blog is archived for perpetuity, or until I forget to renew the domain license, whichever is the sooner.
I arrived in China on August 22 2008, two days before the Olympics ended (and I was there at the closing ceremony ). I had backpacked through the country the summer before, teaching English at a Tibetan village in Qinghai province which I wrote about here , but now I was here to live and learn the language for two years, at Peking University. At that time I became interested in the generation of young Chinese around me, my peers, and started this blog as a way to keep up with six of their lives – mostly m
the Anthill | a writers' colony
Alec Ash
Mutant Palm – Formerly Musing Under The Tenement Palm