Author Archives: Michael Butchin

About Michael Butchin

I was born, according to the official records, in the Year of the Ram, under the Element of Fire, when Johnson ruled the land with a heavy heart; in the Cradle of Liberty, to a family of bohemians. I studied Chinese language and literature at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. I spent some years in Taiwan teaching kindergarten during the day, and ESOL during the evenings. I currently work as a high school ESOL teacher, and am an unlikely martial artist. I have spent much of my life amongst actors, singers, movie stars, beautiful cultists, Taoist immortals, renegade monks, and at least one martial arts tzaddik. I currently reside in Beijing's Dongcheng district

Beijing Diary

Well, things are going swimmingly here in Beijing. We recently had a record “heat wave” of 23 C just this last Friday. Not an unusual temperature for the summer perhaps, but certainly odd when winter is still supposed to be … Continue reading

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