Alabama Liberal Goes to China!

If that title wasn’t straightforward enough, let me confirm that, yes, I did just get back from a recent two week trip to China (specifically, Shanghai and then a shorter time in Hong Kong).

The next two weeks of the blog will be a deviation from the articles that usually run as I hope to talk about the trip. It’s pretty rare that I talk about much personal on here, so my apologies for this indulgence, but I’ll try to make it fun to read about even if you have no interest in ever stepping foot in America’s chief rival for global dominance.

This will hopefully be the next best thing as I plan to (hopefully) include pictures, video, an interview, many descriptions of tourist attractions, and, of course, some of the negative political things I observed there. It was an amazing time, but don’t worry, I’ll try to dwell on the negatives as much as possible so people won’t feel like I’m rubbing it in their faces. I think we’ve all seen enough vacation pictures on people’s Facebook profiles to know there’s a big difference between having fun ourselves and seeing pictures of other people having fun.