michaeldmanning
- Name: Michael D. Manning
- Location: Korla, Xinjiang
- Tell us about yourself: I'm the sundried tomato king of China, and about the only person out there blogging from Xinjiang.
Recent Comments
I had a different experience. I was able to get a pair of Y800-each side-by-side front row tickets at the Bird's Nest on August 18th for only Y1000 each. I went two hours before the event and found li...
I'm not only skeptical of the claims, I'm skeptical that the Turkestan Islamic Party exists in any significant way related to Xinjiang. This is the new ETIM... a few guys trying to start jihad, who wi...
Hey, check it out... police have disrupted a plot to attack Shanghai during the Olympics (via CNN)....
Check it out... I've posted some images and commentary related to this racial profiling notice over on my site. Click here for the dirt on Qinghai's Hualong County Hui clique....
As far as Xinjiang goes, I faced restrictions with hotels in almost every city I visited over three years from 2005 to 2008. If you didn't run up against the restrictions in some places, it's because ...
How did Hui Muslims from Qinghai's Hualong County get on the list? I spent a month in Hualong last winter, and there wasn't much evidence of anti-Han sentiment amongs the Huis, although there was cons...
I thought the squat gold can was supposed to be the flat version, and the blue can Red Bull is carbonated? Am I wrong?...
Hey, did you guys see that Black Eyed Peas are playing an earthquake benefit tonight in Shanghai? ...
Yeah, I was going to say that these are supposed to be made of bamboo tiles, although I'm not sure if that's the case. The bed-sized mats are nice, too....
Any ideas where the Beijing Tigers are playing these days? What's the price of a ticket? I'd like to go see the game this Sunday against Sichuan if I can find out some more info....
When I visited Beiheide about 6 months ago all of the restaurants catering to tourists near the beaches used this plastic-covered setup. Being a tourist trap, I think they charged 2 or 3 kuai per set....
Don't assume that the Tibetans are targeting Hui Muslims just because they look like Han Chinese. One thing I learned while living in a Tibetan community in Qinghai for the month of January is that th...
I don't know how they do it, but the GFW somehow manages to still block some sites even when I'm using an SSH tunnel (similar to VPN). An hour ago I was still able to get on YouTube to upload video of...
I think you're definitely right about the benefit of having many previous F visas in your passport. I have about four or five previous F visas issued in New York and Almaty in my US passport, and abou...
For everyone out there wondering about the executions, the AP article didn't make it exactly clear... but the 6 people sentenced were supposedly among the 17 captured during that big terrorist camp ra...
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