Five Rings Over China

Okay, so I told myself I wouldn't keep a blog while I lived in China because of my miserable failure at keeping a blog in London. The other day, though, my thesis advisor at Michigan told me to keep a blog. He said he lived in Poland during the last two years of Communist rule (which I had no idea about) and that he couldn't recommend keeping a blog more. Then I thought about all the time I had to sit and think about nothing on the subway home from work every day and decided that yeah, I should do it. Here's hoping that I can actually keep it up (since I only made it to February 2007 in a study abroad period from January to June).

The first month's entries will basically be emails that I've sent to everyone copied and pasted.

As for the title, its supposed to be a shout out to Edgar Snow's "Red Star Over China". I hope you get it, and the implied similarities (of situation, definitely not of journalistic quality).