A multi-decadelong government initiative to renovate the city’s old buildings and install indoor plumbing in all housing has ...

"Before dawn, we had to go out, carrying the pot and queuing at the public toilet," recalled Zhang Cuiying, who has lived there for 38 years. "Our hands went numb in winter, the smell was awful in ...

When one has been invited to stay overnight in a home without indoor plumbing, but is provided with a chamber pot under the ...

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They generously gave us their own bedroom, which included the aforesaid chamber pot. Necessity compelled us to use it.

GENTLE READER: If you are able to decipher “Stay in our bedroom or you’re an ugly American” from a hand gesture, Miss Manners feels certain you can figure out one for, “There is poop in the potty; ...