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On Tea, Confabulation and Being Lazy: Interviewing Chengdu Icon Li Bo Qing
March 20, 2015
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Stay the course
December 11, 2013
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I recently wrote a post about my Chengdu Compound, and the comments on the post, and on Reddit, reflect two things, in general: 1) Good
The Pensioners are back
January 25, 2013
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Retired doctors, nurses, and health workers converged on Chengdu’s government offices today for the third time in a month. The first time I was able
We be sharing poetry about Chengdu.
January 19, 2013
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Check it out here on the Chengdu Forum. Or below. Now I know where all the recycling goes down a funk street in hongpailou past the rows
Li Cheng Peng Book Signing in Chengdu
January 12, 2013
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Li Cheng Peng, an outspoken ex-sports journalist turned censorship-slayer and social media darling has a new book out: “全世界人民都知道：SmILENCE” (The Whole World Knows: SmILENCE) He
Anren Jianchuan Museum Cluster
November 9, 2012
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I made a visit to the Jianchuan Museum Cluster a few months ago and then wrote a post for Chengduliving on the museum and Fan
Insomnia
October 31, 2012
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Sometimes I can’t sleep at night, I toss and turn, alarm bells and laughter going off in the street. Honking cars in my dreams. I
Adrift during the Holiday
October 2, 2012
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I find myself sleeping, tweeting, taking notes. Talking to people I don’t know. Coffee and cigarettes. And carrying my son around on my shoulders so
The Struggle for Hong Kong
September 10, 2012
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Here in Chengdu, people have been asking me: “Hey, did you hear what they did in Hong Kong? They stood up to the government.” There
Silk Roads and Great Walls
April 7, 2012
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What we today call the Chongqing Model and the Guangdong Model are just new names for an ancient struggle. Since the first brick was laid
The Empire Strikes Back
April 5, 2012
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China-based hacks into commercial and political networks across the planet have made the news again, with the Trend Micro report on an attack called LuckyCat
Don’t wink at me
April 4, 2012
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I am a stranger in a strange land. I need connections or I will wither and die. And the connections I need are not just
China-US Cold War and what we can do about it
December 27, 2011
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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
Ode to Third Ring Road
December 5, 2011
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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
Imprisoned
November 28, 2011
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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
Excerpts from an Interview with Luo Fahui
November 25, 2011
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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
Up for Grabs
November 11, 2011
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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
What the Wenchuan Quake makes me think of
May 13, 2011
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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
My wrist hurts
March 30, 2011
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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
Dorian’s First Birthday
February 16, 2011
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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
Holy Shit I miss Sichuan
December 8, 2010
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Man I found myself teary eyed listening to the Ya Jian Bang sing about Sichuan food. I was thinking about what it would feel like
My man Fu Qiang
January 28, 2010
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Has just opened up a shop selling his CDs (compilations of music he digs) and art. He takes pictures and uses software to make his
I can’t stop laughing at Western businessmen
January 25, 2010
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I don’t even know where to start laughing and where to end. It doesn’t matter. For years and years people like me (but with better
The Du
January 21, 2010
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Here is a little list of cool spots in Chengdu. This is actually a VERY incomplete list, but its a good start. holla.
Haiti
January 16, 2010
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here is a short essay on Haiti and Chengdu and some of the similarities and differences in the disasters that struck here and there.
China reacts to Avatar the Movie
January 11, 2010
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Avatar the movie opened up in China on January 4th, 2010. Lines stretched for blocks outside of most every theater in the nation for the
Crib finalized
January 10, 2010
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Contract signed. The crib is real nice, we is happy. I wish I could show you pics, but i have to wait till those greasy
Chengdu Living
January 10, 2010
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Spent all day yesterday cooking up various meals and eating them on the spot. I’ve been brewing the soup for two days (into the third)
Free to Post
December 21, 2009
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I wrote an essay a while back about censorship in China, for Antiwar.com, and I basically said that within the parameters of black and white,
Summer in Portland
June 12, 2009
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is almost perfect. its not too hot and when it does get hot the rains come politely like butlers in the morning to dress up
Mengding Mountain Tea
June 11, 2009
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I took a trip last month while i was in china to my main homegirl’s tea spot. here are some pics: From Left to Right:
A long hiatus makes for a rambling post
May 24, 2009
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So i will begin with an introduction: hi, this has been inaccessible for me for some time, but now i have hotpost shield so its
Work is the Enemy of Doubt
May 2, 2009
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Fortuitous fortuitous this is the word of the day. I spent the last two days meeting my old tea suppliers Bai Ting Ting who provides
The Du
April 29, 2009
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MM-MM something about the Du makes me feel all homey. its easy as pie out here. the sky looks like dishwater and i aint seen
Back in China
April 27, 2009
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Shanghai is a sea of skyscrapers as far as my eye can see. There are pockets of two-story blocks of old school homes with laundry
PEEP THIS!!
November 12, 2008
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Julia Zimmermann came to Chengdu and stayed with me for several days chronicling the earthquake there for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung — my favorite German-language
Some ill from the Du
August 2, 2008
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My man Chengduxi, who put up my Auryn tattoo back in the day — had to get it recolored by Poh in Pai, but so
When things die
July 22, 2008
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I was in Chengdu for the past two days taking care of some business and I went to check out my old home in Three
Beijing 2008
July 14, 2008
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I am finally in Beijing. After several months of talking about it and changes to the plan on a weekly basis, I am now officially
The death of traditions
July 8, 2008
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It is so hot and humid in Chengdu right now that my brain is bathing in its own liquid, humming strange tunes to itself and
My Neighbors
July 7, 2008
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Here are some pics by photographer Andreas Mueller of the village i live in and some of my neighbors:
Blogger up in China!
June 21, 2008
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Well i’ll be damned. After all this time, China has decided(?) to let blogger do its thing. So i am visible in China. This is
it just keeps gettin thicker
June 19, 2008
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ya’ll don’t even know. I went to Hanyuan the other day and just got back in the Du. I was planning on staying a month
The Gov’s Side of the Story
June 16, 2008
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So the meeting between the local government officials of Three God’s Village and the villagers took place today at 10am. The meeting was held in
serendipity
June 5, 2008
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i just got back from Beichuan a few minutes ago. Beichuan was near the epicenter of the earthquake, so most of the villages in that
aftershocks
June 2, 2008
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today … bout three minutes ago, a large aftershock shook chengdu. the largest in a long time, maybe since the original quake. and it lasted
Luo Shui
June 1, 2008
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We went to Luo Shui today, about 20 of us in several cars and trucks loaded with toys, paints, candy and other goodies for the
False Alarms and Party Poopers
May 20, 2008
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Yesterday Chengdu went crazy as every man, woman and child rushed to the streets to throw up tents (again) or jump in cars to head
mom i can’t see your hand
May 18, 2008
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A Poem by an anonymous Chinese circling the web(translated): Children quickquickHold fast to Mother’s handThe Road to HeavenIs so darkMom is afraidyou’ll hit your headQuickHold
A Theory of Relativity
May 18, 2008
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First off: Blogger is blocked in China, so people cannot see it here, I cannot comment back to any of you and i do use
Around Qing Cheng …
May 18, 2008
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Yesterday i climbed as far as it is possible to climb right and Qing Cheng mtn is def. devastated near the top. Past the Tai
China handles business
May 16, 2008
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President Hu Jintao made it to Dujiangyan today and shook hands with Prime Minister Wen Jiabao… Today I took a ride with a civil engineer
To Mianyang
May 15, 2008
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Tomorrow we will try and head up to see if we can help. THe local authorities and Red Cross have designated the Bookworm and Cafe
I’ll make ya famous
May 15, 2008
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Well Chengdu is basically back to normal. My friend Charlie’s harrowing experience is all over the web now — here is the AP story, which
Chillin in Flower Village
May 14, 2008
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Well the tremors have picked up now and rumors are rife about another large earthquake. But rumors have been flying all day about no water,
Chengdu Earthquake day after
May 14, 2008
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Here is a story I wrote that didn’t find space … its a time-pegged story which means I can probably not publish it anywhere else.
“Even if there is only a sliver of hope …”
May 14, 2008
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Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao’s speech is looped on TV and radio and seems to have an effect. One line that inspired was: “Even if
Spent last night with my People
May 14, 2008
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I want to first reply to those who have commented about Qing Cheng Mountain: If anyone has ever been there you may remember the very
We felt it comin …
May 13, 2008
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My friend Rachel wrote the day before the quake: “I feel like the world is shifting” if ya’ll check the first few lines of my
A shaky night
May 13, 2008
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There is a tremor going on as i write — has been shaking my building for the past three minutes. still shaking. had tremors all
No Sleep tonight
May 12, 2008
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Well now that i feel i have done my part cross-referencing links and straining at Chinese characters its time to write lil something for my
updates on Chengdu earthquake: its getting worse
May 12, 2008
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Thousands dead and injured in Beichuan county — the TV is not reporting any of this, getting it off of Xinhua news. All media is
updates on Chengdu earthquake: Deyang has at least five schools collapse
May 12, 2008
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The schools are taking a hit across the northern part of Sichuan. Deyang is 45 minutes NE of Chengdu, Dujiangyan is 45minutes NW .. PArty
Chengdu TV on earthquake
May 12, 2008
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The tv news just reported 107 deaths and 648 injuries. They also say that gas is tough to come by — some people have been
rumors of more earthquakes coming
May 12, 2008
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Rumors are spreading fast throughout the city that there will be another large earthquake this evening at 830pm … this has not been confirmed by
More Updates for Chengdu Earthquake
May 12, 2008
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The death toll is rising — so far it is up to 107 and the schoolchildren in Dujiangyan are not completely accounted for. The countryside
chengdu earthquake gets worse
May 12, 2008
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Dujiangyan has been hit with tragedy. 900 schoolchildren are believed to be buried under their schoolhouse when it collapsed. DJY is 56km north of chengdu,
updates on Chengdu earthquake
May 12, 2008
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we just experienced another tremor at 710pm. the locals are trying to drive out of the city, but most of the roads out are jammed-packed
The Illusion of Coincidence…
May 9, 2008
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A great many strange things have happened in the past few days … perhaps not as many as may be transmitted by the feeling that
Basic Conversation with a Chengdu Cabbie
April 14, 2008
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Oh shit! Wassup Laowai! Where you from? For real? Where you teach at? You aint a teacher? Where you study at? Oh so you a
The tongue of the toad cannot reach the wings of the dove
April 14, 2008
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you know there used to be a prostitute that hung out by the Fu Nan River that flows through the city of Chengdu. She was
holla
April 3, 2008
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Let me know if you can see my entire blog and comment on it, cuz i can’t. I have been saving up my energy for
Aint nothin special bout me
March 26, 2008
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i walked back to my house tonight around 2am and i live near the Tibetan district of town. there were police cars on every block
pear blossoms and rapeseed
March 24, 2008
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i went walking through the orchards yesterday, but the people i guided there were uninterested in fairy-watching or pollen-passing, so i stowed away my plans
Hold a Fist Up for Tibet
March 17, 2008
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Yesterday I talked with my editor Katherine about Tibet and she asked what was going on. I said well, if people in Kham and Amdo
gou re de
March 15, 2008
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Today i spent the whole day with my man Liu Yuan running from one massive development project to another, extolling the virtues of Chengdu’s real
Back in The Du
February 20, 2008
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I have been wrestling with being called a racist by people who read my occasional column on antiwar.com — i admit that i do have
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