I did not use a wallet before I went to college and used to stuff all my change into pockets.
What's one way to make Chinese city slickers laugh out loud? Tell them your bicycle has been stolen.
A few days ago, I followed my wife to a fruit market and we were both tempted by something beautiful jumping from the boxes.
My husband was in Singapore for a two-week project, so I planned to take my daughter to join him during her spring break.
The airline industry represents the ultimate victory of globalization: same planes, rules, suspicious stares at Customs.
I've always felt that the lonely hearts advertisements in the newspaper classifieds are brilliant.
The Los Angeles Zoo has paid a feng shui expert $4,500 to make three little Chinese monkeys feel warm and fuzzy in their new luxury compound.
If you look up the words "urban", "suburban" or "rural" in English and Chinese dictionaries, they list definitions that are essentially the same.
My dad, who passed away six years ago, was one of the most affable people you can imagine.
For a man who grew up in a suburban retirement bungalow, my 38-square-meter city center apartment has taken some getting used to.
This is the Year of the Pig. We Chinese are supposed to turn the animal into a lovey-dovey pet.
I'm not a superstitious person, but recently found myself following superstition unwittingly by getting my hair cut on the second day of the second month of the Chinese lunar calendar, which fell on March 20 this year.