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Living in a Ghost Town
When the sun goes down, leave the outdoors to the spirits and stay inside. Locals say to bring in your laundry so that spirits don’t cling to it
Von Trapped in Beijing
A local citizen, dressed in corduroy knee britches, a corduroy jacket with lapels and an Austrian Tyrolean hat complete with jaunty little feather would spring into view
The Great Sweet Swindle
And then the blow came: he explained that every day she told him the same thing in perfect Chinese: My mom’s a rich foreigner and she’ll pay you later for it
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Don’t Kiss Your Horse
One dreads to imagine how many meetings have been ruined by a foreigner who intended to ask a client about a sale, only to fumble their words and imply that they wanted to buy a kiss
Gratuitous Behavior
China’s no-tipping culture proves that restaurants can function just fine, actually, better by not forcing customers to subsidize workers’ wages
Ruff Rides
He let out a scream worthy of a castrato and shouted, “Your dog bit me!” I opened up Dickie’s jaws and wordlessly showed him that my dog had no teeth