I lived in the People’s Republic for ten years, and now translate Mandarin to English. Some stuff I’m interested in and try to write about: camels, frogs, trickster gods, extended phenotypes, collapsing empires, immunology, hybrid vigor, pseudo-random algorithms, love, vengeance, quantized space-time, the 1920s, Paleolithic Venuses, D&D, culture shock, reverse culture shock, salmon, fatty salmon, fatty mutton, and fatty mutton hot pot.