The Table Had Three Players and a Gap I wasn’t looking for a game. I was cutting through People’s Park in Chengdu — the same park where I’d spent an afternoon doing nothing a few days earlier, as described in…
My taxi from the airport overcharged me by maybe sixty yuan and I knew it at the time. The driver had refused to start the meter, said something I did not understand, made a circular hand gesture that I read…
The Moment My Phone Died and So Did My Entire Trip I landed at Beijing Capital at 6am on a January morning, switched on my phone, and watched the signal bars cycle through every carrier on the planet before settling…
