Kept this blog while studying Mandarin in Beijing, courtesy the Washington Post, and before that while reporting from postwar Iraq for Knight Ridder Newspapers. Occasionally I can't access this blog but I will try to update it intermittently ...
Saturday, October 01, 2005
Outside a big electronics shop in West Beijing, a mostly-male audience gathered to watch scantily-clad women dance on stage in an apparent attempt to sell cell phones and home appliances.