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Tom from Seeing Red in China pointed out some China Quarterly essays and one of them is the inspiration for this essay … Few of
Can it be denied that the US is actively engaging China’s border nations in an attempt to contain and control China? It seems pretty clear
Here are some recent pics of my two boys, Stinky and Plumpy. For family and friends 😉 Love, Sascha Yushi Dorian Damian
The Yining Government just released a plan of action that targets beard and burka-wearers across the municipality. The plan calls for a house-to-house search for
I often wondered if generations before us have felt this same sense of impending doom that our epoch currently feels. I don’t wonder about it
You can catch me on the Third Ring Road, zipping down the sideline on my Bad. Moduh. Scooduh. I’m on there enough to have found
I’m going to switch gears and talk about my own country for a second here. Hitting out at China is actually too easy. There are
Several years back I was in a taxi cab headed somewhere and the guy sitting in the front seat was a Fullbright Scholar here in
Liao Yiwu is a Chengdu native and he recently escaped over to Berlin via the Horse and Tea Trade Route pathways of southern China. Reading
This is a companion piece to ChengduLiving’s Portrait of a Chengdu Artist: Luo Fa Hui. Here I put together some excerpts from an interview back
Today I read Murong Xuecun’s speech given in Oslo. The things he described in his speech are clearly happening all around us and I have
It’s hard to watch a good man go down, but that is exactly what I find myself doing everyday now since Ai Wei Wei’s battle
I am deeply ashamed that I linked that NYT article. If you read it (Hi Mom!) then you noticed how the voice was decidedly not
There are basically two camps in the world “battling it out” while the rest of the masses shift and moan and watch it all go
I went to Carrefour aka Roundabout aka 家乐福 to buy a razor and shaving cream and it took me almost an hour. Carrefour is a
I spent a full year under the harsh lights of Ctrip’s corporate glare and I wrote a lot of stuff for them. It seemed like
Raglitmag is a webzine of short stories that you can check out on your E-reader as a pdf. They pay pretty well for a rag
The Little Mole is a super cute cartoon for kids up to around 2yrs of age. You can show it to older kids, but these
“my sword crashes through your breastplate splashes the blood across your scared face drops leave a trail in the snow showing a clear trace…” I
While avoiding the drudge work at Ctrip, I stumbled across the theory of neoteny in evolution. Neoteny is when infant features appear in adults ie
I came across some interesting thoughts the least couple of days. Although I don’t write about current affairs nearly as much as I used to,
So we’re on the eternal search for “the Spot” that will allow me to sip tea and write best sellers while bean makes big big
When my man Raihan heard I was having baby, he wrote me a message that went basically: “When you feel the rage and are about
I worry about my writing a lot. Its the only thing i can claim as my own and its probably my only legit ticket out
All last night i pooped out water and wandered between dream states with these lines from J-Dilla’s Jungle Love going through my head over and
Once again, i have neglected my own personal blog in favor of other “cooler” spots that either pay me or raise my exposure level up
My father in law left last night and I have a feeling it will be a very long time until we see each other again.
Two boys now, depending on me to show them the way. For at least half their lives willingly and then for another 1/4 or so
I read Shazad’s writings on Pakistan and the Taliban for years. Every single story of his informed me as to the real, on the ground
For years I avoided Hainan because as far as I had heard, it was a dirty, rude knock-off of nicer islands farther south and west
I’m headed to Sanya this weekend to write up some travel stories about the island .. the beaches and some of the luxury hotels. I’ve
Rumor has it that Tom Waits once said this to Jim Jarmusch over whiskey and pop tarts, but it could have been Ben Franklin. I
When it comes to blogging and just writing in general, its important to get your groove on. For a while there I was writing wak
Today I picked up the cash portion of my pay. here at Ctrip.com we foreigners have two different forms of payment: 1) Taxable income that
I still choke up every time I read about the kids that died in the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake. I’ll remember the pictures of a girl
I walked into the Minneapolis Institute of Arts one day way back in 1998 and saw this massive hunk of jade. It had been commissioned
but i’m surfin instead. The other day my man Charlie got the China Blues, you know, when it dawns on you that all of the
And when I was in Chengdu a few weeks a go I told my shifu Li Cuan about it and he made me pound on
Stephan Luc Larose and I have put together our latest video, 48 Hours in Shanghai. The first part is below for you to check out.
Man everywhere i look the oppression is just getting deeper and deeper — at least when I peep the news. there is China doing all
Some new ish here for everybody to check out and pass around the campfire: Travel videos for Ctrip.com … these are the first two and
I’ve been up and down this road and written a few things about it — the road that links India and Southeast Asia with southwest
Lil Dorian turned one on February 8th and we went to our old stomping gronds in San Sheng Xiang to celebrate with good friends. The
These past days I feel like I am just holding on … waiting for this miserable winter to end. Winters in China are exceptionally difficult
I made a very big mistake and assumed that I could re-new Dorian’s visa in Germany. His visa expired while we were in Germany for
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