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An Expat in China — 151 episodes
Ep150: Water, water everywhere. Welcome to Wuzhen!
Ep 149: China's Civil Aviation Museum Revisited
Ep148: A memorial to Qi Baishi
Ep 147: Don't overdose on fun in Beijing's tech museum
Ep 146: What's in a name?
Ep 145: Preparing for an earthquake in Beijing
Ep 144: Around the world in 80 minutes
Ep 143: Just a pile of old bones? Beijing's Paleontology Museum
Ep 142: NBeer - Time for some serious research
Ep 141: A Cute Museum in Hailar
Ep 140: Mongolian nuptials in the heeart of the grasslands
Ep 139: Hailar’s National Park
Ep 138: An Unplanned Trip to Inner Mongolia
Ep 137: Waste Not Want Not – Beijing’s Craft Beer Festival
Ep 136: It’s tulip time again in Zhongshan!
Ep 135: Leaping greatly to yet another taproom
Ep 134: Parkview Green / FangCaoDi: Isn’t this Beijing’s most amazing up-market mall?
Ep 133: Beijing's Jing-A… It’s all about the beer!
Ep 132: Beijing's Panda Brewery – Cute Pandas… Shame About the Brews!
Ep 131: Beijing's Arrow Brewery – Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover
Ep 130: Xiamen: A surfeit of old loos and a museum that has done a runner…
Ep 129: Solidarity Lake Park – an oasis in Beijing’s CBD
Ep 128: A Dose Of Nostalgia In Tai Po Market - Hong Kong Rail Museum
Ep 127: Slutty Mermaids and a Monkey’s Fist? Welcome to Slow Boat!
Ep 126: Another Must-Visit Attraction off the Tourists’ Radar - Zhengyangmen Museum
Ep 125: Fengtai’s Curate’s Egg – Garden Expo Park
Ep 124: When Transportation Trumped History… Ming City Walls Park
Ep 123: Disappointment in Fuxingmen - Beijing's Palace of Nationalities
Ep 122: At One with Nature: Hong Kong's Wetland Park
Ep 121: An Oasis of Tranquillity in Hong Kong
Ep 120: Capital Museum – Where they Show 'what they didn’t have room to display elsewhere'
Ep 119: DingLing Certainly trumps ChangLing in the Ming Tombs Valley
Ep 118: And they think I’m Colour Blind?
Ep 117: Red Leaves, Stone Flowers and a Dead Cat
Ep 116: A Most Disappointing Temple Museum
Ep 115: A Little Gem of a Temple in Beijing
Ep 114: Oh ¥€$ – This Is Definitely A Museum Worth Visiting
Ep 113: All In the Best Possible Taste? Tianjin's China House
Ep 112: An iPhone in the family way… And disaster in Candy Town!
Ep 111: An Exemplar Of What Some Museums Can Be ... Lu Xun's Residence
Ep 110: How Come Lidai Diwang Temple Is Not On Everyone's Must-Visit List?
Ep 109: Not a Single Red Scarf in Sight... at Honglingjin Park
Ep 108: Graffiti! Numbskulls or Artists? You Decide…
Ep 107: "I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat" – down in S.W. Beijing
Ep 106: Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory – Not just a British Phenomenon!
Ep 105: Return to YuanMingYuan
Ep 104: Beauty, Boredom and Criminality in Beijing's Forest Park
Ep 103: A visit to the "40% Coin Museum"
Ep 102: Turning somersaults in Tsinghua - Dream of Golden Clown
Ep 101: Is Guo Shoujing's museum Beijing's most BORING?
Ep 100: Out for a Duck - One of Beijing's BEST Peking Duck restaurants
Ep 99: Saving a Small Fortune in Beijing... The capital's only Japanese-themed garden
Ep 98: The worst named attraction in Beijing?.. the Working Peoples Cultural Palace!
Ep 97: Here be dragons!... in Beijing's Longtan Park
Ep 96: Can One Ever Get Fed Up With Gold? - Hong Kong's 10,000 Buddhas Monastery
Ep 95: God Bless the Man who Invented Nature - Hong Kong Park
Ep 94: A lesson in good food and marketing - at the "Ninty Nine Yurts"
Ep 93: How can I ever look a tea bag in the face again? The "Way of Tea"
Ep 92: Congratulations! Ignore your waistline! - Downing jiaozi in downtown Beijing
Ep 91: Ink stamps, Concubines and a Chinese Parrot - Ji Xiaolan's Residence
Ep 90: A Feast for the Eyes as well as the Stomach... Shanxi or Shaanxi Cuisine?
Ep 89: Want a prescription? Try the Dentist!
Ep 88: Pounding the mountains for a slice of history - Discovering Cuandixia
Ep 87: Why Bother with the National Museum?
Ep 86: Discovering yet Another Chinese Invention - China Printing Museum
Ep 85: Better than watching paint dry? Agricultural Exhibition Centre
Ep 84: Red Dreams in Beijing's Da Guan Yuan
Ep 83: Who is mad enough to go to an outdoor museum when it's minus 16 degrees?
Ep 82: Strutting the flesh on a cold winter’s day at Beijing's newest dance studio
Ep 81: Coming Face to Face with a Scholar and Thinker - Brush up on your Azerbaijani!
Ep 80:Is Purple the new Black? Inside Zizhuyuan
Ep 79: Beijing's Auto Museum - where the super heroes aren't the best drivers
Ep: Which is more stunning... Nature in Taoranting or Chinglish?
Ep 77: How Come I Am The Only Visitor In the AAM?
Ep 76: A Long-overdue Pilgrimage to Beitang
Ep 75: Following in the Footsteps of the Spermatozoa - A Museum's well kept secret!
Ep 74: Zhongshan and Tian'anmen - two not to be missed venues
Ep 73: In Search of Beijing’s Elusive Bees
Ep 72: Travelling Through Shanghai's Time Tunnel
Ep 71: Shanghai's Jing’an – a Mecca for Leophiles?
Ep 70: Searching for Peace in Shanghai And Eating Lunch Through A Straw
Ep 69: First Visit to Shanghai – But mind what you drink!
Ep 68: Back to Nature AGAIN in Beijing's Botanic Academy
Ep 67: Back to Nature in Beijing's Botanic Garden
Ep 66: Move over Dante! Make way for the 76 departments of the Taoist Pantheon!
Ep 65: Give Peace a Chance? Beijing's anti Japanese aggression museum
Ep 64: Return to Tianjin
Ep 63: Is This What Chinese Heaven Is Like?
Ep 62: Chinese Exercise - The best way to get over a trauma is to meet it head on
Ep 61: If Confucius had been Catholic, he’d surely be a saint by now!
Ep 60: Everything about China told in Miniature - Philately Museum
Ep 59: Playing Peekaboo with the Red Caped Enlightened Ones
Ep 58: How did Artists Cope in the days before Photoshop?
Ep 57: Discovering Wu Ta Si’s Stone Carvings Museum
Ep 56: Breaking in to Peking University
Ep 55: Tsinghua... Beijing University Theme Park?
Ep 54: Catching up on Y2K - Beijing's Millennium Monument
Ep 53: Dazhong (Big Bell) Temple Museum
Ep 52: So Who Needs Disney? Shijingshan Amusement Park
Ep51: A Meeting with the Chairman
50: In Search of the Flying Watermelon
49: A Museum Not Suitable for the Faint of Heart
48: Dumplings! – Liaoning Style
47: Spare a thought for Beijing’s millions of homeless flies
46: The Museum that Wasn’t - Mind you don't sneeze!
45: Great Hall of the People ... but is it all that great?
44: Time for Another Comeuppance... Brian's been a BAD boy!
43: Who turned the heating off?
42: Who Pinched all the Trains? - Beijing's Other Rail Museum
41: Beijing’s Flight of Fancy - Civil Aviation Museum
40: The Unkindest Snip of All – Beijing’s Eunuch Museum
39: Star Gazing in Beijing
38: China through a lens
37: A New Marketing Ploy for KFC?
36: BeiJing's Tap Water Museum (yes it really does exist!)
35: Santa Jostles with the Dragon
34: Making tracks with Mao
33: Toasting the Dragon
32: At home with Sung Qing-ling
31: The World - sometimes not all it is cracked up to be!
30: Xmas in Beijing
29: A visit to Prince Gong's Pad
28: Exploring the hutong
27: Gobbing for China
26: Juggling with destiny … or crashing the diplomats’ party
25: “I love talking about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.”
24: Summer Palace – Best viewed in autumn
23: Being single on 11.11.11
22: "Judge not others ..."
21: Telling the Time in Beijing
20: The Hills are Alive with the Sound of …. Bullshit?
19: In search of vintage paint stripper
18: Jackie Chan, Chateau Laffitte and a Jar of Penises
17: A KGB agent in the National Ballet?
16: You don’t have to be a philistine to enjoy 798
15: Special Me Is a Suave Dude
14: Searching for that Moon Rabbit
13 - Patience has its rewards
12 - It's Lotus Time in YuanMingYuan
11 - Brian Sprints his way around Olympics-ville
10 - Beijing's Fierce Creatures
09 - Overcoming the Pain Barrier
08 - Following in Nixon's Footsteps
07 - A Transport of Delight
06 - Window on the world
05 - An Amazing Day Out in Tianjin
Start of a new chapter in Brian’s autobiography
China Visa Red Tape
Beijing Tarts: Over the Hill at 30
Flying China Southern Airlines
Introduction