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Category Archives: china

spring&summer

some folks in norway have awarded something very important to someone i am not supposed to mention. when you google him from here, google stops working for a few minutes. euphemism it is. today someone told me that june 4, as it’s called, remains largely undiscussed in china, officially speaking; and that when it’s briefly [...]

Status: invisible

The euphoria of being here has started to wear off as I have just realised I am actually at work. Which means pursuing my solitary compositions, and in an alien language. Without my lover beside me I am facing a lot of conversations which consist of ‘that one – thanks’ with attendant pointing. But there [...]

fly, pigeon!

today i bought this second-hand bird. the FP brand was once china’s national bicycle, but is losing credibility among the young who want shiny new electric scooters and such, and is fast becoming a daggy representative of the old china for which only foreigners like me are nostalgic. i adore its squeaky pedals and safety [...]

great walls

i send my possibly-pictureless greetings from behind the great firewall of china! i have been struggling a little with the restriction of online sources and images… pretty much no video and nothing run by blogger, nor tumblr – but my (wp) blog is still working, along with most of my radical news sources. in china’s [...]