http://nortonwheeler.com/shanghai/ (starring Norty and Terry Wheeler) en-us Copyright 2007 Mon, 07 Aug 2006 17:34:57 +0800 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:53:42 +0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss I love all the Bing Crosby-Bob Hope "Road" movies -- Road to Morocco, Road to Bali, Road to Utopia, etc.... http://nortonwheeler.com/shanghai/archives/2006/08/the_next_road.html http://nortonwheeler.com/shanghai/archives/2006/08/the_next_road.html general Mon, 07 Aug 2006 17:34:57 +0800 Tomorrow (August 8), we will leave China -- for now.... http://nortonwheeler.com/shanghai/archives/2006/08/last_days.html http://nortonwheeler.com/shanghai/archives/2006/08/last_days.html general Mon, 07 Aug 2006 16:43:39 +0800 There are books and photo albums with this title. Although dictionaries define a hutong as a lane or an alley, there really is no exact English equivalent.... http://nortonwheeler.com/shanghai/archives/2006/08/hutongs_of_beij.html http://nortonwheeler.com/shanghai/archives/2006/08/hutongs_of_beij.html trips Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:05:45 +0800 In the recent hit movie "World without Thieves," the Andy Lau character and his girl friend effortlessly steal dozens of cell phones, to a background musical score, as their owners pray in front of a Buddhist temple.... http://nortonwheeler.com/shanghai/archives/2006/07/thief.html http://nortonwheeler.com/shanghai/archives/2006/07/thief.html daily life Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:41:30 +0800 We probably could have used this title during any of the 132 weeks we have lived in Nantong.... http://nortonwheeler.com/shanghai/archives/2006/07/new_restaurant.html http://nortonwheeler.com/shanghai/archives/2006/07/new_restaurant.html daily life Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:25:31 +0800 This is the tenth year of my ten-year plan for changing careers, from business to academia.... http://nortonwheeler.com/shanghai/archives/2006/07/changes.html http://nortonwheeler.com/shanghai/archives/2006/07/changes.html work Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:17:22 +0800 Have you looked at our Photo Gallery, linked to this Weblog? Terry has filled an album ("Say What?") with photos of Chinese signs with English translations that might sound odd to the ears of native English speakers.... http://nortonwheeler.com/shanghai/archives/2006/05/we_contribute_t_3.html http://nortonwheeler.com/shanghai/archives/2006/05/we_contribute_t_3.html daily life Wed, 31 May 2006 14:44:04 +0800 My company’s chairman, Jim Kaplan, and machine shop manager, Jeff Weston, were in Nantong the week before this year’s May Day holiday. Jim wants to learn how to travel between cities by himself, and I said I’d teach him. Instead, we all learned some different lessons. (Skip to the end, if you just want the lessons.)... http://nortonwheeler.com/shanghai/archives/2006/05/holiday_travel.html http://nortonwheeler.com/shanghai/archives/2006/05/holiday_travel.html work Tue, 09 May 2006 14:09:04 +0800 In the United States, “Dog Bites Man” isn’t newsworthy. It isn’t in China, either – for Chinese. For me, though, it was another new adventure.... http://nortonwheeler.com/shanghai/archives/2006/05/dog_bites_man.html http://nortonwheeler.com/shanghai/archives/2006/05/dog_bites_man.html daily life Tue, 09 May 2006 12:29:18 +0800 One of our bags didn't arrive at the Shanghai Pudong Airport when we did, but the Airport staff resolved the problem smoothly.... http://nortonwheeler.com/shanghai/archives/2006/04/airport_efficie.html http://nortonwheeler.com/shanghai/archives/2006/04/airport_efficie.html daily life Fri, 07 Apr 2006 17:07:41 +0800 Life (and death) go on in the United States, even while we are in China.... http://nortonwheeler.com/shanghai/archives/2006/04/the_cycle_of_li.html http://nortonwheeler.com/shanghai/archives/2006/04/the_cycle_of_li.html family Fri, 07 Apr 2006 16:55:07 +0800 Today was my second day in Shanghai's old Hankou District, where 30,000 Jews found refuge during World War II. (See: 1/17/04 entry, "acrobatics, silk, Jewish history.")... http://nortonwheeler.com/shanghai/archives/2006/02/guangguang_hank.html http://nortonwheeler.com/shanghai/archives/2006/02/guangguang_hank.html recreation Sun, 19 Feb 2006 17:30:06 +0800 Nantong had 2 MacDonalds locations and (I think) 5 KFCs when Terry and I arrived. When a new front was revealed for the totally rennovated Nantong Department Store at the beginning of 2006, we realized that Nantong now also has a Pizza Hut.... http://nortonwheeler.com/shanghai/archives/2006/02/pizza_hut_comes.html http://nortonwheeler.com/shanghai/archives/2006/02/pizza_hut_comes.html daily life Thu, 02 Feb 2006 10:59:28 +0800 I may have mentioned earlier that a "gang of three" local officials extorted about $800 from my company shortly after I arrived in Nantong at the beginning of 2003.... http://nortonwheeler.com/shanghai/archives/2006/02/small_blow_agai.html http://nortonwheeler.com/shanghai/archives/2006/02/small_blow_agai.html business Thu, 02 Feb 2006 10:42:22 +0800 Paint is like drinking water in China - that is, something you can't take for granted.... http://nortonwheeler.com/shanghai/archives/2006/01/paint.html http://nortonwheeler.com/shanghai/archives/2006/01/paint.html daily life Sun, 08 Jan 2006 15:00:20 +0800