I caused another near-miss accident on my power walk this morning. I’ve mentioned before that white people get stared at a lot in my little Chinese city of 7 million people named Wenzhou.

The residents here don’t see too many loawai (literally old foreigner) and so when they do, they tend to look very carefully as they may never see another. This is even more true of country folk who come to the big city to work. I encounter a disproportionate number of them in the mornings as they make their way to the market to sell their produce or to the construction sites littering this boom town. more…