North Pole Must Be Too Cold

You can learn a lot by watching TV ads on the Beijing subway. For instance, Santa Claus lives in a temperate alpine valley, where he hand-selects chocolate chips to be mixed into a popular brand of ice cream.

Also, judging from cartoons that tout the Chinese emergency hotline, all criminals and crime victims in China are white foreigners.

Afternoon at the Old Summer Palace

Across the road from Tsinghua University is the Old Summer Palace, a large park with the ruins of several imperial palaces destroyed by British and French soldiers in 1860.