Michelle Tsai is a writer based in Beijing.

She has written about sex ed in the land of the one-child policy, the sadness of Chinese romantic comedies, Indonesia learning Mandarin, the Mafia's love of garbage and the intoxication of online karaoke.

She is currently working on a book about Chinatowns on six continents. Read her dispatches at ChinatownStories.com and follow her on Twitter @michtsai.