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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

Life in the Mystic East, Part the First

Posted on May 3, 2020 by Michael Butchin

This current sojourn of mine is not the first time I have dwelt in East Asia. I have lived in Taiwan, and I have toured China, and this time around, my current plan is to live here in Beijing for … Continue reading →

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