the color of its countries

I have recently discovered Ben's Blog, an account of the life and times of a young fellow who has spent the last few years living and teaching in China. He is presently interning at a Chinese barbershop as a kind of cultural experiment—more on that in the blog—and his commentary is insightful and often funny. Outside sources indicate that he is also doing work on the side for an ethnographic research company, which may explain the project and certainly sounds like a pretty appealing prospect to me.

In any case, I advocate giving it a look, especially the bits on his Chinese game show appearances.