Yu Yan had been a promising theatre major at Zhong Xi (中央戏剧学院), the biggest and best performing arts school in the country in 2012. Beijing! The sprawling grey series of concentric co...
https://www.awesomemopsofchina.com/2019/12/30/classic-mops-yu-yan-2012-revisited/
Cissy Wang had a thing for monks. If monks could have a fan club, she would have been their president. The president for all of the monks. All of them. She was that big of a fan. She was in the ...
https://www.awesomemopsofchina.com/2016/06/23/cissy-wang-has-big-dreams/
Beijing’s new all-genders toilet ruling was definitely a step forward for the city’s diverse and unrepresented masses. The standard mops, the short handled mops, the average brooms, the ha...
https://www.awesomemopsofchina.com/2016/06/21/tang-xiaoxiao-wishes-rags-were-excluded/
Ren Bing was frankly surprised that the tiny bouncer in the Mongolian Bar in Lanqi, Inner Mongolia, had been able to take him down so easily and readily with just a running tackle. The ...
https://www.awesomemopsofchina.com/2015/04/29/ren-bing-freaks-out-in-inner-mongolia/
Jie Sike was very familiar with all of the self care establishments around Shanghai. She’d tried them all: the burping and farting blind masseurs, the fancy soft-lit Drangonfly spa days with...
https://www.awesomemopsofchina.com/2015/04/22/jie-sike-has-an-unnerving-spa-day/
Although he had been in Hanoi for nearly a year, Zhang Yi was still adjusting to the constantly evolving culture shock. The past few weeks had been particularly startling to his sensibilities....
https://www.awesomemopsofchina.com/2015/03/04/zhang-yi-observes-the-observant/
Ding Bao Bao took a long acrid drag on his cigarette. It was one of the last from the carton of Double Happiness that he had brought down from Shanghai. He felt utterly dejected. An accomplish...
https://www.awesomemopsofchina.com/2015/01/03/ding-baobao-is-utterly-disillusioned/
The fog had been particularly thick in Shanghai or the past week, foggier than it had been back in her home city of Xi’an. Visibility in places had been reduced to mere metres at times. When...
https://www.awesomemopsofchina.com/2013/12/14/hou-yiqin-emerges-from-the-beneficial-fog/
Niamh stood at the open balcony window of her new apartment and smiled. A new life. She’d managed to grab an east-facing apartment. It was warm and cosy in the morning and refreshingly coo...
https://www.awesomemopsofchina.com/2013/08/20/niamh-seeks-a-new-life-in-wuhan/
He Guang’s ears were ringing. He gazed up at the hazy noon sky, his eyes still unfocused, bits of red, sulphury firecracker paper lodged in the various nooks and crannies along his body. With t...