春节快乐！！！ I 老虎 U!
新年快乐广州！
February 4, 2010
anouk van dijk & falk richter – TRUST
The set is moody, gloomy, dark, chrome chairs and black leather sofa, matching seats, a stylist-industrial minimalist clutter extending back …
January 10, 2010
Reading: Feng Jicai – Voices from the Whirlwind
feng jicai – voices from the whirlwind
December 22, 2009
solstice
Taoism struggles against the cultural preference for the “light.” The Tao Te Ching, especially, champions the low, the dark. …
June 1, 2009
Reading: Zhao Ziyang – Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang
zhao ziyang – prisoner of the state
April 6, 2009
blog stuff
I shouldn’t be on my laptop today; I am bad. Working around 12 and sometimes up to 16 hours a …
November 19, 2008
transgender day of remembrance
For any queer trans* Berliners who read me, there is a meeting tomorrow night 6pm, at my favourite bar, Silverfuture, …
October 16, 2008
Reading… an anniversary
A year ago in the briefest of lines, I began keeping a list of the books I’ve digested… burp.
What remains, …
July 7, 2008
Juedisches Museum Berlin
I went to the Juedische Museum Berlin today.
juedisches museum berlin – 1
juedisches museum berlin – 2
juedisches museum …
June 27, 2008
Global Voices Summit – Budapest
Some of my favourite and also most inspiring bloggers, writers, wonderful computer and internet people are all in Budapest for …
June 6, 2008
Reading: Harriet Evans – The Subject of Gender: Daughters and Mothers in Urban China
harriet evans – the subject of gender
May 14, 2008
Reading: Liao Yiwu – The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China from the Bottom Up
Normally I say nothing about the books I’m reading, I have a superstition that to do so would cause me …
April 16, 2008
pestilence days 5-11
Night rehearsals.
I’ve been slack at blogging this project. It’s taken me an awful lot of methodical, patient, slogging to get …
February 25, 2008
Reading: Susan Mann – The Talented Women of the Zhang Family
susan mann – the talented women of the zhang family
February 5, 2008
waiting at the train station
Half a million people stuck in the Guangzhou Train Station, over 100 trains carrying thousands of people each stranded in …
February 4, 2008
新年快乐！﹣hoping the rats are warm on the trains
This is not Guangzhou Train Station. This is Huanshi Xi Lu, quite far in front of the station. News from …
January 27, 2008
more feeds and things … and blogrolls
A little bit preoccupied today and doing busywork (yes, is a word), and somehow stumbled upon several rather cool blogs …
December 31, 2007
Reading: Jin Xing – Shanghai Tango (A Memoir)
jin xing – shanghai tango (a memoir)
September 26, 2007
中秋节快乐！！！
mmmm … mooncakes …
green tea mooncake with one yolk
hong kong elegant flavour
September 9, 2007
all about jin xing
Whenever I’d be hanging out with some group of artists or dancers, sitting around the remnants of dinner and drinking …
September 9, 2007
some pictures i took with my phone
My iPod seems to be dead, and somehow I keep managing to resuscitate my laptop despite in/out errors and loads …
August 1, 2007
michelangelo antonioni
Blowup was one of those films that changed how I look at cinema, and then how I imagined performance. Early …
June 19, 2007
冯三七 canton disaster relief blogging
John is responsible for much of my email. He only knows this now. But I read it all, after-all, I …
May 6, 2007
the life of 金星 jin xing
Conversations on contemporary art in China that swung around to dance invariably brought mention of Shanghai choreographer and dancer Jin …
April 1, 2007
sunday morning avoiding-work blogging
More stuff I’ve read in the past two weeks for your amazement and occasional pleasure, though because everyone’s taste is …
March 11, 2007
lazy sunday cooking eating blogging …
A late night swirling Pernod with Bonnie at Orange and an early trip to the shops for Sunday fruit, now …
March 3, 2007
saturday morning re-blogging
Last night was a rather interesting experience for me that I’m not going to blog about, but certainly has much …
February 26, 2007
when in doubt … cliché and generalise
Two almost opposite examinations of art or culture came from Ou Ning’s blog today, the first a textless photographic documentary, …
February 24, 2007
it’s all about 冯三七 … i mean feng37 … i mean john
A couple of weeks ago, John Kennedy – also known as contemporary Chinese poetry translator Feng37 – thought that …
February 18, 2007
新年快乐! 恭喜发财! – hoping that meat prices don’t go up
Yes, I am missing not being in Guangzhou, or joining hundreds of millions on the country’s trains. So, from Mary …
February 14, 2007
向欧洲致歉 apologies to europe
Occasionally I stumble across an artist who manages to strip all the complexity from what is often a torturous endeavour, …
February 11, 2007
sunday tranny-blogging (and spitting in china)
What is it about Sundays that seem to cause a blog upwelling of a more cerebral nature than during the …
January 29, 2007
another adelaide arrival/departure
As when I arrived in Adelaide, so too was it grey and occasionally seeped in a fine mist for Bonnie, …
January 11, 2007
我不知道我是什么性别
Happy reading for me this afternoon from Mary Ann in Shenzhen, who writes one of the best blogs coming out …
January 8, 2007
Protected: miscellaneous tranny stuff … coz we rule
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
December 12, 2006
smashing small thing together really fast
Maybe I should change my blog name to supernaut … i whore for science, I’ve been blogging so much about …
December 10, 2006
stuff i read and even bookmarked in the last week
Bookmarked, that is, so I could blah on loudly here about it, in lieu of dragging myself through the warm …
December 5, 2006
super-condom tranny
I don’t really want to be ‘tranny activist’ and have to get all political and fight-for-your-rights. Or perhaps more accurately …
December 3, 2006
dormitory
Splendidly late blogging, but wtf. I’ve been meaning to drool here about Wang Qingsong’s Dormitory, though equally any of his …
December 2, 2006
some stuff i read this week
Lazy Saturday afternoon post-dragging myself out of bed and thinking of going climbing pretty soon, but first a random trawl …
October 21, 2006
what i’ve been reading today
Another list of completely unrelated stuff that circulated through my news feeds in the last couple of days and makes …
October 13, 2006
shooting them like rats, dogs
A truly disgusting start to yesterday was reading about climbers in Tibet on Cho Oyu watching the Chinese Army massacre …
October 8, 2006
berkeley china initiative
I’m not sure how much I’ll be blogging in the next week as things get mental with crush. In the …
October 6, 2006
中秋节快乐
I’ve been lucky enough to have had a couple of Mid-Autumn Festivals in Guangzhou, and yeah it’s a bit late, …
October 5, 2006
china power station
Lawrence Li at Global Noise Online has been blogging regularly about the upcoming China Power Station, “A major exhibition of …
October 1, 2006
stuff i read today
Having dragged myself out of bed at the rather late hour of 1030 and still working my way through a …
September 25, 2006
长沙刁民 changsha rogue
One of my favourite means of getting around Guangzhou since I first got over my terror of speeding death under …
September 24, 2006
Shanghai to Mongolia via Mir
Reblogging again, this time combining a some of my disparate loves. Astronaut Shannon Lucid, like writer J. G. Ballard has …
September 15, 2006
miscellaneous rubbish for a friday
Martha Graham. Evil despot of the Modern Dance universe. Shame she didn’t die sooner. The ImpulsTanz Juice newsletter quotes her …
August 26, 2006
水上人家 – river people
When I was in Hong Kong for a day in early May, as usual I went on my idea of …
August 18, 2006
广州有毒液体泄 – Guangzhou liquid inferno
There has been a large chemical leak in 天河区 Tian He District of Guangzhou, near 东圃石溪 Dongpushi Creek today. The …
August 4, 2006
on plagues and skin disorders
Reading Jean Baudrillard’s Symbolic Exchange and Death in 2003 was one of those pivotal moments in consumption of text that …
July 30, 2006
3030 new photography in china
A new book of contemporary art photographers from China:
3030: New Photography in China
This fully illustrated survey of 30 of China’s …
July 12, 2006
吴皓 hao wu released
Read all about it on Free Hao Wu.
China: Wu Hao released
Filed under: About Hao Wu, News, Nina’s blog — Feng …
July 8, 2006
何清濂教授的易性术手术 sex change surgery with professor he
Professor He Qinglian in Shanghai has a website, 何氏性别再赋整形美容网 offering sex-change information and surgery at the surgery department of the …
June 19, 2006
一队夫妻只生育一孩子
A friend was in town for a day, so I subjected him to my tour of Canton, walking from where …
June 18, 2006
the turmoil ended with his death
During 岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD, China didn’t celebrate forty years since the start of the Cultural Revolution, and for various reasons …
June 13, 2006
beautiful and mysterious luoping
The vast monsoon-saturated billboard, the only unbleached colour in two days of hard-sleeper train from Kunming to Guangzhou said, “Welcome …
June 11, 2006
虎跳峡 & 玉龙雪山 tiger leaping gorge and jade dragon snow mountain
Some photos of five days I spent wandering through Tiger Leaping Gorge, some from the high trail, others from when …
May 31, 2006
going on holiday
I’m going on holiday. For more than a week, maybe even two weeks… One place I’ve always wanted to visit, …
May 28, 2006
云浮, 汕尾, 太石 and other holiday places
Periodically, I write about stuff in China that has little at first glance to do with making dance and art. …
May 26, 2006
collapsing old buildings
There is a small part of Guangzhou where I am disoriented and nearly convinced I am actually in Zürich walking …
May 17, 2006
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – uber_lingua
Everyone has gone. Emile is back in Melbourne now, and tomorrow is making Guangzhou sounds at St Jerome’s. Remember, each …
May 16, 2006
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – byte-aftermath
Paul and Emile left last night after a fine dinner with everyone at 1920, the German café on 沿江路 Yanjiang …
May 14, 2006
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – typhoon chanchu
Yesterday was one of those days I really wanted to not happen. It reminded me of a few other pre-show …
May 11, 2006
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – smell of greasepaint
The last week has been a conscious block for me when it has come to choreographing the bikini-high-heel dance-a-thon/showgirl-on-nembutal-and-acid bit. …
May 10, 2006
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – costume drama
We’re doing a lot of just running sections now, accruing detail and coherency through repetition, but still to finish are …
May 10, 2006
don’t try and escape you’ll be shot
Paul Emmanuel, who I have spent most of tonight making act like a stooge for Beelzebub has decided to remain …
May 9, 2006
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – don’t call this a remount
It’s mental week now, doing the costume shopping, organising lots of little things that sprout up like an Oxalis frenzy. …
May 7, 2006
a visit to the sex market
South-East Asia’s biggest sex market that is, though I always expected Thailand, or Korea or Japan who have the first …
May 7, 2006
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – 春宫图 spring palace lust
When I was researching hell in Guangzhou in December last year, I picked up from the now-defunct but hitherto infamous …
May 2, 2006
storm over shaheding
A plan to catch a taxi home from rehearsal fell apart when I really couldn’t pretend I can catch taxis …
April 30, 2006
10 = marquido + itta
Before it all passes me by again and I’m still looking like an imbecile going … wuuuuh … ? this …
April 29, 2006
we hate art and like nothing interesting
Beijing’s Dashanzi Art District which I always think of as embodying contemporary Chinese art as so much of it comes …
April 28, 2006
still lazy (but reading like a concubine at an orgy)
I just can’t seem to get focussed on blogging at the moment, I think because my schedule is a little …
April 24, 2006
New Order’s Peter Hook Guangzhou Babyface DJ set
One of the most influential bands on me from when I first heard the pounding of Blue Monday, and I …
April 24, 2006
请平, 荔湾 Qingping Market and Liwan
There are certain intangible things I love about Guangzhou. Most of them are west of an imaginary and real divider …
April 23, 2006
endless city
In one of my earlier science-fiction gorges, populated mostly by Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, occasionally Philip K. Dick, and …
April 17, 2006
narcoleptic shemale attempts blog…
It started with Hanzi Smatter’s year-old piece on someone who’d got 妖 tattooed on their neck, which might mean “charming” …
April 17, 2006
supernaut is lazy (but can read…)
I’d probably be better using del.icio.us for all the stuff I read, but I found on top of keeping supernaut …
April 12, 2006
what were they doing there?
Someone was telling me 佛山 Foshan, the Fo meant fire, like in Cantonese, but duh! it actually means Buddha. Anyway, …
April 11, 2006
西门子艺术项目 – what art you doing here?
Cao Fei’s performance/video/installation for the global Siemens Arts Programme in Foshan, What Are You Doing Here? opens today. There’s a …
April 8, 2006
a couple of anniversaries i forgot…
I’m really not one for anniversaries, and have even forgotten my birthday a couple of times, but feeling the need …
April 8, 2006
welcome to japanese new music festival
I just want to lick something drenched in acid. That’s twice I’ve seen Acid Mothers Temple and my immediate response …
April 8, 2006
林若熹 – 行愿 lin ruoxi – meditation on travelling
When asked to translate the exhibition notes for 林若熹 Lin Ruoxi’s 行愿 exhibition, I wasn’t expecting highrise-sized banners and three …
April 7, 2006
art art art … noise
In a pathetic effort to make up for a few days of blaring silence, with 2am crawls to bed, hour …
April 6, 2006
cosplayers in hong kong
Two nights in Hong Kong, picking up Emile and Paul from the airport, playing tourist across Kowloon and Central, seeing …
April 2, 2006
他们在这做什么? what are they doing here?
I’m off to Hong Kong tomorrow to pick up Paul and Emile, and I’m not sure when I’m coming back, …
April 1, 2006
acid mothers temple! guangzhou!
“Welcome to Japanese New Music Festival”
I am officially a groupie, and I’m so excited I can’t even type properly. One …
March 30, 2006
bird flu
I’ve had Bird Flu for the last few days, I know because I checked the symptoms on the internet, and …
March 26, 2006
金星 jin xing and shanghai dance festival
Something I’ve been meaning to write about for a bit, but I am lazy and prefer sleeping, is the 舞上海 …
March 26, 2006
陈莉莉 chen lili – the face of plastic surgery
Someone said to me, “lesbians are so 90s; trannys are where it’s at now”, and I thought, “eeeee!!! once again …
March 23, 2006
释放吴皓 free hao wu
I started reading Feng 37 a few weeks ago for his endless translations of contemporary Chinese poetry, and being another …
March 22, 2006
park19 in 石围塘 shiweitang
A very strange day yesterday of taxis and ferries and walking around parts of Guangzhou that are very much not …
March 18, 2006
a pothole in jiulong
So I came back early. It was getting wet, which was slightly funny considering it hadn’t really dried, and trying …
March 17, 2006
eeeeeee!!! blog!!!!
I was going to write a whole bunch of stuff about a whole pile of stuff, lots of exciting Guangzhou …
March 6, 2006
pearl river bikini party
Once, hanging out down on Shamian Island, and wanting to be, I dunno, somewhere less touristy, I saw Chairman Mao …
March 4, 2006
straight outta canton
I’m sure I had a post with the same title as this some time… but well, I can’t find it, …
February 27, 2006
guangzhou art and blogs
A few days ago a friend of mine who used to work at Park19 emailed me with a link to …
February 25, 2006
fengdu’s erased horizon
Daily reading of Diacritic, and this reminded me alot – in an almost diametrically opposite way – of the photography …
February 25, 2006
p.k.14 – a tour of the public kingdom
It’s time to think about China and Guangzhou again as I’ll be in Hong Kong in two weeks and spending …
February 18, 2006
destination prd
In my daily ploughing through a couple of hundred RSS feeds, I read from Danwei, there’s a new quarterly magazine …
February 17, 2006
my name is 张德江 Zhang Dejiang
I’ve been slowly limiting my China obsession to merely a Guangdong Province one. Mainly because China is simply too vast …
February 16, 2006
ma jian – stick your tongue out
In Taiwan a year ago, thanks to the vast library at the Taipei Artist Village I got seriously into reading …
February 15, 2006
transylvania avenue
Cosmin, who was one of the mob of Guangzhou climbers that descended on Jiulong every weekend while I was in …
February 13, 2006
transmediale 06 talking about china
In December last year, Martijn de Waal contacted me about as part of the Chinese Mediaculture project. It was a …
January 5, 2006
puk gai and other cantonese words of love
What I really like when speaking Cantonese is how it makes me sound like a slutty canto-porn star about to …
January 3, 2006
Guanyin and the Kings of Hell
It’s something like perfect timing, or maybe just the endless wash of information ebbing and flowing. The Met Museum in …
December 31, 2005
从太石村到东洲坑——更危险的一步 From Taishi village to Dongzhou–a step into danger
The massacre of peasants in Dongzhou, in Guangdong Province happened earlier this month, when I was having blog problems and …
December 30, 2005
nine lives – the birth of avante-garde in new china
SCALO Books have just published Beijing resident Karen Smith’s Nine Lives – The Birth of Avante-Garde in New China, and …
December 29, 2005
先锋光芒 – ray of the avante garde
Guangzhou’s 广州中华影城 Zhonghua Cinema is running a festival of recent Chinese films, 先锋光芒–中国青年导演电影展映（柏林篇）Ray of the Avante Garde – Chinese Young …
December 27, 2005
transsexuals in china
There was a kinda interesting article in China Daily, about a transsexual named Xiao Ying, who is about to have …
December 27, 2005
同志 tongzhi getting queer in china
It could have been the part of town I was hanging out in, or it could be that Guangzhou is …
December 26, 2005
don’t drink the brown acid
The first time it was almost world news; the second when upstart southern capital Guangzhou tried to get in on …
December 26, 2005
i like my guangzhou underground
I have such a soft spot for the city Lonely Planet used to advise everyone to don’t-stop-just-keep-on-going-on-to-the-Real-China, and now describe …
December 12, 2005
chinese mediaculture
One of the works at the 第二届广州三年展 2nd Guangzhou Triennial, the Beijing Boom Tower, has come back to me in …
December 11, 2005
a quarter of a billion – an addendum
I had some doubts this morning about posting the previous entry. And more doubts since reading R.J. Rummell’s blog more …
December 7, 2005
kcr – guangzhou to dongguan
The Kowloon to Guangzhou through train is one of the weirdest train rides I’ve been on, and it’s one I’ve …
December 5, 2005
planes trains busses taxis
I’ll be gracing the Hong Kong airport tomorrow, and leaving Guangzhou. It’s been a whirl of a 10 day adventure …
December 4, 2005
translate this: 行愿
I was at the 广州美术学院 and spent the afternoon with 林若熹 a professor at the Academy who is preparing a …
December 3, 2005
a night at loft 345
Last night I went down to Loft345, which used to be Park19 (because it was number 19 whatever lane and …
December 1, 2005
a taxi ride
Going from Huanshi Dong Lu to Jiangnan Dadao, across the river and along the inner city elevated freeways that snake …
November 30, 2005
looking at art: 第二届广州三年展 2nd Guangzhou Triennial
I was going to try and find out if Park19 was still alive but only got as far as 二沙岛Er …
November 28, 2005
z-town to g-town
The flight wasn’t as bad as I’d thought it would be, though getting screwed at Hong Kong airport for a …
November 11, 2005
China Digital Times 中国数字时代 rsf blog nomination
Two blogs from or on China have been nominated for the Reporters Sans Frontières in a field of eight (which …
November 7, 2005
x-sports in china
One of the last times I went climbing at Jiulong, was the monster Hong Kong/Southern China climbers visit to Bamboo …
November 7, 2005
chinese blogger conference 2005
The 中文网志年会 Chinese Blogger Conference 2005 has been going on in Shanghai for the last couple of days. Rebecca McKinnon …
November 6, 2005
more stuff i’ve been reading
I’ve been really enjoying reading from blogs lately, obviously from my daily reading list, (which has since grown longer) even …
November 4, 2005
the satanic orgy of meat
I never went to the real animal markets in Guangzhou. I arrived in the city as a vegetarian, but after …
November 3, 2005
人妖 or 变性 … how about 变性人妖
While I was trawling through the internet, scraping up stuff on Miss International Queen 2005 I found a longish entry …
November 2, 2005
daily blog reading
I went through my blog bookmarks a couple of days ago, which now number several folders with 15 or more …
October 27, 2005
第二届广州三年展 Beyond: 2nd Guangzhou Triennial
More from 亞洲藝術文獻庫 Asia Art Archive on the upcoming 2nd Guangzhou Triennial (a title that I can’t say without feeling …
October 27, 2005
太石村 taishi village – in the media
Sometimes everyone likes jumping on an event for no real reason, and forgets, ignores and generally pretends others haven’t happened. …
October 26, 2005
shanghai does contemporary art
Contemporary art in China is really mostly a scene in Beijing around 798 Factory, despite other cities having something going …
October 26, 2005
男色主题 all man all the time
More softcore fag porn from China, this time 男色主题 manse magazine, which more-or-less means “colour of man”, which sounds very …
October 26, 2005
some more stuff i’ve been reading
Serious pruning of my temporary bookmarks folder(s) is needed. The stuff on 太石村 Tai Shi Village is already out of …
October 14, 2005
亞洲藝術文獻庫 – solo naked performance art
Three great articles are in the most recent 亞洲藝術文獻庫 Asia Art Archive email newsletter. The first is Solo Endurance Performance …
October 13, 2005
Traditional Architecture in modern Asia
I’m not sure where the link to this came from, but anyone interested in Asian architecture will get a kick …
October 11, 2005
太石村 taishi village – so much for feeling happy
A while ago, I wrote about the 太石村 Taishi village election in Panyu District of Guangzhou, and how it was …
October 9, 2005
you must wait for democracy
China and democracy. Well there goes easy access to my website in China. The meme of China and its globally …
October 2, 2005
大山子 798 fringe arts festival
大山子or 798 Arts District in Beijing is holding its first Biennale to coincide with the Beijing Arts Festival. Wiki has …
October 2, 2005
all of china at the kennedy centre
There’s a fairly huge mega-company type cultural celebration of China going on at the moment at both the Kennedy Centre …
October 2, 2005
royal hong kong circus tour of guangzhou
One of the events of last week which was variously setting a precedent, and ice-breaking on the level of Nixon …
September 25, 2005
a bunch of stuff i’ve been reading
Rehearsals are making it a bit difficult for me to focus here, so instead of wading through what has become …
September 21, 2005
太石村 taishi village elections
One of the more interesting pieces on politics in China I’ve read recently came in the form of two pretty …
September 18, 2005
a jew in china is not a parsimonious monkey
Some uppity group called with a bad name, Peacetime Foundation of Taiwan have decided the world would be a better …
September 5, 2005
同志 tongzhi studies at fudan university
Here’s another piece on the new queer studies class at Fudan University. Besides thinking this is really cool and China …
September 2, 2005
A Strange Heaven, Contemporary Chinese photography
There’s some rumour going around about me going to Helsinki in the next couple of weeks. Apparently my legendary and …
September 2, 2005
同志 tongzhi queers in China’s universities
Tong Ge, who is in his late 50s, said the haunts for homosexuals had changed dramatically in recent years. “Up …
September 2, 2005
uli sigg – the man behind the flying fetus
In keeping with my new news policy, I only write about things that happened more than two weeks ago, which …
August 25, 2005
crazy for digital
The current state of film in China and Hong Kong, mostly triad good-cop/bad-cop or period piece fantastical martial arts sewerage …
August 20, 2005
holy flying fetuses batman
Speaking of 萧昱 Xiao Yu and his penchant for the kind of art which would see him in the skanky …
August 19, 2005
pig-fucking at the chenjiatuo art farm
There’s something I like about Wim Delvoye’s tattooed pigs, and also something I find craven and a transparent ploy for …
August 14, 2005
zeroballet bitches extermination
After much pissing around, I thought it was time to dump some more narrow-band choking content on the dance side …
August 14, 2005
privatising contemporary dance in guangzhou
There was a huge interview and article in the Weekend Standard last week on Willy Tsao and the 广东现代舞团 Guangdong …
August 6, 2005
China’s indie doco scene
I missed the 2nd 同性恋电影节 Beijing International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival a couple of months ago, but City Weekend …
August 6, 2005
Down and Out in China
Richard thought I’d like it. I was filling one of his spare rooms in Panyu with the detritus of five …
July 28, 2005
香平麗 our love – drag queen underworld
Not that I have much of a focus on China at the moment, but I know lots of you come …
June 28, 2005
slumming it in vevey
The most skanky flight I have ever had in my life was on the weekend, Hong Kong to Bangkok, to …
June 22, 2005
bitches in the press
Bitches got a couple of mentions in the press including one review, which I dunno if they said anything good, …
June 22, 2005
literature commune chicken
I went to Park19 today to say goodbye to everyone until next time I stumble through Guangzhou. I also made …
June 20, 2005
was it something i said?
I have no access to my email at the moment, and erratic access to my websites. Possibly I did something …
June 16, 2005
淹沒 before the flood
I missed this one completely. 淹沒Before the Flood was screened in Guangzhou on the weekend. It’s also at the Los …
June 16, 2005
文献公社 at Park19
I haven’t been able to find out much about this, except the beautiful flier that I picked up at park19. …
June 15, 2005
sixth generation film
Wang Xiaoshuai’s Beijing Bicycle was a bit of an underground hit a couple of years ago – not that I …
June 15, 2005
splash life
Maybe it was last year, or very early this year, when we sat around the outside table at Sleepywood, mesmerised …
June 13, 2005
eco-tourism in guangdong
I’m an avid map-reader. I’ll spend hours pouring over all kinds of maps looking for something, nothing. Lately it’s been …
June 13, 2005
burn-out
extermination the film was awesome. Expect video on my website sometime soon, and photos here even sooner.
Went to Hong Kong …
June 10, 2005
extermination at park19
Last year when extermination got performed, we also made a film. It’s been lurking, several rolls of 16mm, slowly going …
June 6, 2005
bitches rocks hard
It went so well. bitches rocked out. Even the florescent lights coming on half way through didn’t shake it.
An early-afternoon …
June 5, 2005
罗岗 Luogang bouldering
I know everyone wants to dirt on the show last night, but bugger that. I’m going climbing. So, after a …
June 4, 2005
bitches in rehearsal
Around lunchtime while waiting for the dirt samples to arrive, when the humidity and heat was excerable, I was asked, …
May 31, 2005
bitches part III
It’s production week, or whatever else it can be called, so I’m going to be vanishing into production week limbo …
May 29, 2005
bitches part II
Bitches is a week off and I should really be getting the costumes today, but mainland China has this problem… …
May 28, 2005
mao the destroyer
There is always something despicable about tourists who collect Mao memorabilia or wear Great Helmsman badges. For me it is …
May 27, 2005
queer in china
The last week or so I’ve seen alot more stuff on gays in China in the press. Maybe it’s something …
May 26, 2005
expressions at guangdong modern dance festival
The dance festival here has been over for a couple of weeks, and other things are happening across the town, …
May 26, 2005
bikes are bad
When I first arrived in Guangzhou, I was expecting to see more bicycles. I wasn’t too surprised by their relative …
May 25, 2005
babes in beijing
In 1989, Rachel DeWoskin arrived in Beijing fresh from university to work for an American P.R. firm. Two months later …
May 24, 2005
yingde – the next jiulong
It was the last trip before the humidity rotted even out bones, and the vampire mosquitos were swarming, lecherous and …
May 18, 2005
bitches
I started rehearsals on Monday for the reason why Australia China Council gave me money and why I’m able to …
May 16, 2005
heavy gravity in yangshou’s bastard cousin
The gravity was especially strong in Jiulong on Saturday. In addition to the kind of humidity that can rot the …
May 13, 2005
jiulong again
I’m off climbing again in sunny Jiulong again tomorrow for the weekend. Expect lots of dirty photos of drills going …
May 8, 2005
they’re dead! … everyone’s dead…
Last night was the end of the 第二届广东现代舞周2nd Guangzhou Contemporary Dance Festival, and I know I’ve been pretty harsh on …
May 7, 2005
contemporary dance must die
A triple bill. Three times the fun. The 2nd Guangzhou Dance Festival is almost over, and Thursday night it was …
May 7, 2005
Yoga in Guangzhou
For residents of Guangzhou who really miss that yoga class you’d go to in the evening or on the weekend, …
May 5, 2005
pixeldirt
Justine Poplin makes really cool performance art and installations, and I’ve known her longer than anyone in Australia, and see …
May 4, 2005
jiulong super-crag
Jiulong turned into a bit of a tourist town this weekend. Three carloads of climbers plus a few others ate …
April 30, 2005
when art goes bad
Last night was not quite the beginning of the week of dance at the 2nd Guangzhou Dance Festival, but was …
April 30, 2005
climb, you pathetic little human
I’m off tomorrow morning for a couple of days up at Jiulong again. It’s the big trip. Nine days of …
April 27, 2005
Stop Motion
I arrived back in perfect time for the start of the 第二届广东现代舞 – 2nd Guangdong Modern Dance Festival, two weeks …
April 27, 2005
back in guangzhou town – again
The flight sucked. Taking off is fun in a 747 or anything fast enough to make your bones rattle and …
April 21, 2005
travelling again
I leave for Hong Kong and Guangzhou tomorrow for a couple of months making horrible art before heading over to …
April 12, 2005
Chinese march over Japan’s war ‘whitewash’
The weekend government-sponsored outings in China made it into the Australian papers yesterday, as Chinese diplomats act like schoolyard hillbillies …
April 10, 2005
anti-japan riots in guangzhou (and everywhere else)
The anti-Japan bullshit that has been fomenting across China in the major cities, reached a peak over the weekend. Ostensibly …
April 5, 2005
China Hands: Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage, and Diplomacy in Asia
The Asian Review of Books review James Lilley’s swashbuckling tale of intrigue, parachuting spies into communist Manchuria, and hanging out …
April 2, 2005
Joseph Rock rises again
Reading the Green Guide at Orange yesterday, the last name I expected to see getting airtime on SBS this week …
March 30, 2005
cock rock
In an effort to make everyone see what an awesome place Guangdong province is to go climbing in, it looks …
March 27, 2005
小城之春 – The best Chinese-language movies of all time
The Hong Kong Film Awards have voted
小城之春 Spring in a Small Town, directed by Fei Mu as the number 1 …
March 27, 2005
regeneration
Another exhibition, pretty similar to the Stanford Show below is on at Otis College of Art + Design’s Ben Maltz …
March 27, 2005
political hysteria in chinese art
One of the many articles on Chinese art I missed during my amputation from the internet in February came from …
March 25, 2005
chinese whispers in adelaide
Amanda Phillips and me are always in the same place, but never at the same time. She was in Zurich …
March 21, 2005
they rule
Just in case you had any illusions about the benevolence of the Chinese communist party, who’ve shared the love three …
March 18, 2005
COSPlayers – cao fei in beijing
Guangzhou artist Cao Fei has opened her exhibition at Courtyard Gallery in Beijing. Urban teenage superhero video COSPlayers is being …
March 17, 2005
china demonstrates small-dick syndrome
The big news since I landed in Melbourne that everyone wants an answer to is, “When do they begin bombing?” …
March 16, 2005
大声展 get it louder
大声展 get it louder opens in Shenzhen at the end of next month before moving to Shanghai and Beijing. Over …
March 14, 2005
virtually richard3
Brisbane-based expressions dance company is about to head off to Guangzhou to join a bunch of other dance companies from …
March 11, 2005
travelling again
I’ve been travelling most of the week, leaving Guangzhou on Tuesday and heading to Melbourne for the next six weeks. …
March 7, 2005
another day at jiulong
We set off for Jiulong with the same driver and his white car with the dropped shocks around seven along …
March 5, 2005
干花乐队 dead flowers at park19
Having blown my remaining change of DVDs again, including weird old documentaries on the history of Hong Kong filmmaking, I …
March 2, 2005
the new park-19
I went back to the new Park-19 today in daylight surrounded by the craziness of the Nantai markets. I’m looking …
March 1, 2005
Jiulong – you ain’t in Hong Kong anymore
A while ago, I saw some photos of a place just north of Guangzhou that looked so like Yangshou, the …
March 1, 2005
Australia China Council funds me
Just when I was thinking of giving it all up, getting a nice easy job (say maybe a showgirl in …
February 28, 2005
19-T somewhere south of the river
Besides the main Park-19 where all the artists have studios, there’s another one, a bit further west of the University …
February 23, 2005
transsexuals on supernaut
It’s only out of sheer laziness that I haven’t done this before. So while I’m freezing my arse off in …
February 23, 2005
park 19, 19-T and shanshui records
This Friday night at Park 19, Shanshui Records and a bunch of others have the Guangzhou part of their tour.
19-T中国巡演广州PARK19站
时间：2005年2月25日星期五20：00
地点：广州PARK19艺术空间南泰新空间
地址：广州市海珠区南泰路168号南泰百货批发中心二号楼8楼（南泰加油站旁）
演出乐手：Kesqsse（19-t）、Amnjk（19-t）、Sulumi（Shanshui）、Iloop（Shanshui）
客席乐手：李劲松（亚洲传声）、Double …
February 22, 2005
park 19 where it’s all at
I went to Park 19 yesterday, the artists studio space on the south side o the river near Xiaogang Park. …
February 21, 2005
taiwan punk fucks the shit up
I missed The Deported play at 這牆 The Wall a few weeks ago, but this piece by band-member AndyO on …
February 21, 2005
2005广州国际摄影双年展“城市·重视” 2005 Guangzhou Photo Biennale
The 2005 Guangzhou Photo Biennale opened at the 广东美术馆 Guangdong Museum of Modern Art in mid-January and is running until …
February 20, 2005
香港舞蹈年獎 Hong Kong Dance Awards
The seventh annual 香港舞蹈年獎 Hong Kong Dance Awards were held on February 1st with performances by Hong Kong Dance Company …
February 20, 2005
punching on in the mainland
Within twenty-four hours of getting into guangzhou, I saw one almost riot at the train station between really pissed off …
February 16, 2005
airports hotels taxis and slow internet
I’m travelling again, having left Taipei on Monday morning and spent a fun day in Hong Kong catching up with …
February 13, 2005
gangstalean and beijing bookworm
So I go away for a couple of weeks, and look at all these new websites. Bloody hell, I’m glad …
February 12, 2005
Rear Light – Beijing Dance at the Joyce
The 北京現代舞團 Beijing Modern Dance Company have been performing Read Light at the Joyce Theatre in New York. The Times …
February 11, 2005
二十號倉庫 stock 20
I went down to 二十號倉庫 stock 20 yesterday, the Taizhong artist Village, which along with the Taipei Artist Village is …
January 31, 2005
guangdong #1
The centre of the manufacturing universe, Guangdong Provence now has the largest population in China. Bigger than most countries …
January 28, 2005
more chinese sci-fi
Two new Chinese science-fiction magazines have appeared on the market in China. As all the names have ‘fantasy’ and ’science …
January 26, 2005
qing yuan, guangdong’s yangshuo
When I first knew I was going to China, my first thought was, “Damn I need to find where to …
January 19, 2005
广东现代舞团 – Guangdong Modern Dance Company Performs
This weekend, the amazing 广东现代舞团 – Guangdong Modern Dance Company will present a season of new short works by the …
January 17, 2005
赵紫阳 zhao ziyang dies
(From China Digital News)
Zhao Ziyang, under house arrest in China since 1989, has now passed away.
His daughter says: “He is …
January 15, 2005
stop beating the animals
$ sinobling $ returns from the zoo, and doesn’t have much good to say. The attitudes of so many Chinese …
January 10, 2005
seth’s interactions
Late last year, former China reporter Seth Faison, who had been in the country on and off since the early …
January 9, 2005
化境神似 from zhwj
I can’t remember what I was reading which had the link to this, but after being stunned by In the …
January 9, 2005
the little company that could
Just before I left Guangzhou, the 广东实验现代舞团 Guangdong Modern Dance Company and Symphony Orchestra were rehearsing in preparation of their …
January 8, 2005
damming tiger leaping gorge
Not content with trashing 600 kilometers of the Three Gorges and making a formerly spectacular terrain resemble little more than …
January 5, 2005
plastic chinese stools and other great works of art
China Underground regularly has good stuff on art in China, and lately they’ve been adding some video-art, including Guang Yang’s …
January 5, 2005
vote for meee!!! … again …
The party at Simon World for the 2004 Asian Blog Awards has barely finished and the results are still being …
January 4, 2005
in the footsteps of joseph rock
There are a whole pageload of new blogs over at sinosplice china blog list, but only in only one is …
December 30, 2004
shen wei at sydney opera house
The Sydney Festival opens in a couple of weeks, premiering Kate Champion’s Already Elsewhere and Shen Wei Dance Arts, the …
December 30, 2004
vote for me!!!
This is your last chance to vote for me in the Asian Blog Awards, so go on do something worthwhile …
December 24, 2004
that’s OC
I love a good West Coast badly-acted 30-nothing playing emotional-car-crash teenagers in expensive lifestyles, like The OC. The That’s Magazine …
December 24, 2004
that’s gets shut down
Here a couple of days ago and gone today. That’s Magazines – Guangzhou, Beijing and Shanghai were a lifesaver when …
December 23, 2004
give me toilet architecture or give me death
Professor Yu is going to be taking alot of shit for a while for thinking Rem Koolhaas should apologise for …
December 20, 2004
人造美女 – miss artificial beauty
The first beauty competition in China for people who had plastic surgery, 人造美女, is over, and the winner is Feng …
December 15, 2004
大山子艺术区 on wiki
Factory 798 in Beijing was the site of the Dashanzi International Art Festival earlier this year, and is one of …
December 15, 2004
plastic surgery disasters
Actually I’m a bit of a fan of the whole thing, in a post-modern kind of way, especially after finding …
December 12, 2004
what i read this week
It’s a smorgasboard of words this week. fro Li Bai all the way up to street slang, don’t ya just …
December 7, 2004
Co4 … so what?
Along with some of the gang from 新樂園藝術空間 SLY Art Studo I spent the afternoon at 大趨勢畫廊 Main Trend Gallery …
December 7, 2004
1337 $p33|< in china
TMD，７４５６，偶恨不得一脚TST? 1337 $p33|< the language of 12 year old script kiddies the world over has made it to the …
December 6, 2004
台北金馬影展 golden horse film fest awards
The best film award in the 台北金馬影展 Golden Horse Film Festival has gone to a mainland China film portraying life …
December 5, 2004
antonioni in china
Having made some of the most striking films of the new wave in L’Avventura, then setting The Yardbirds on fire …
December 5, 2004
what i read this week
Back for another wash-cycle of what happened in Asia this week (that I read about), and no matter what else …
November 28, 2004
what i read this week
Just in case I ever need to recall what I read this week that didn’t have anything to do with …
November 22, 2004
UBU and TRSIMF
One festival finishes, another begins. Last night was the final of three ear-splitting nights of some of the best rock …
November 18, 2004
beijing artists channel throbbing gristle
An opinion piece on the current state of avant-garde art in Beijing brought to mind a conversation I’d had in …
November 16, 2004
’second-tier city’ culture
Chongqing recently expanded its boundaries to become the largest municipality in the world with a population of some 20 million …
November 16, 2004
guangzhou’s tallest building
In Yuexiu Park there is an old drum tower which is most of what remains of the once city-encircling walls. …
November 13, 2004
城市謠言 – 華人建築展 2004 The Rumor of China Towns
Blowing off the opportunity to see Ned Kelly at the Film Festival, the next stop for the night was MOCA …
November 12, 2004
colonel jin xing
The Shanghai Foreign Correspondents Club had a screening of Colonel Jin Xing – a unique destiny last night. Jin Xing, …
November 9, 2004
shanghai art arse licking
The Guardian has been running a Special Report on China for the last couple of weeks, which should be compulsory …
November 9, 2004
let’s talk about sex baby
It’s a sex-arama in across China and Taiwan this week. Leaving behind me in Guangzhou is the second annual sex …
November 6, 2004
qj studios – 没大没小 Mei Da Mei Xiao
Just before I left Guangzhou, I had a couple of conversations about the art scene in the city, which seems …
November 5, 2004
architecture in beijing
The first architecture Biennial Beijing 2004 has just started in the capital, and Stefano Mirti, Simone Muscolino and Luca Poncellini …
October 29, 2004
down at the xinghai concert hall
Friday. My last day in Guangzhou. Two weeks of teaching dance at the Guangdong Modern Dance Company School, Yoga at …
October 22, 2004
东山小区 dong shan town
Around 5pm it’s impossible to get a taxi anywhere in town, and even if you do, it moves so slow …
October 22, 2004
this one’s for you, JD
When I first came to Guangzhou, I was introduced by the fearsome culinary vultures of the Symphony Orchestra to about …
October 21, 2004
liwan hutong
China is keeping me busy. I’m teaching contemporary dance at the Guangdong modern Dance Company School Yes, they have a …
October 4, 2004
i hope someday you will join
The 迷笛现代音乐节 Midi Music Festival is on again in Beijing until today, which is probably the best festival in China …
October 4, 2004
dancing until the sky clears up
The 广东实验现代舞团 Guangdong Modern Dance Company is currently on tour in Europe, performing several dates in Nederlands and Belgium with …
October 3, 2004
中国农民调查 An Investigation of China’s Peasantry
The authors of the book 中国农民调查 An Investigation of China’s Peasantry on the appalling lives and working conditions of China’s …
October 3, 2004
2046 in china
Wong Kar-wai’s latest, four years in the making masterpiece, 2046 has just opened in China in time for the moon-cake …
September 29, 2004
lazy man in china
Tonight at the Asialink Centre, former Beijing Correspondent Helen Cheung’s book Lazy Man in China, is being launched Based on …
September 27, 2004
twlight of the door gods
Watch any Chinese martial arts movie and somewhere there will always be a set of double doors with fearsome, demonic …
September 25, 2004
i-dance festival
Currently in the middle of their 25th anniversary celebrations, CCDC has also just been involved in the first independent …
September 23, 2004
the watchtowers of 开平碉楼 kaiping diaolou
News Guangdong reports on the Kaiping Watchtowers, diaolou 碉樓, which have come under State protection for their architecture and historic …
September 23, 2004
one a day
From Danwei, the home of fine Chinese newspaper covers, comes the antidote to low-IQ, automated content of flaccid fengshui and …
September 22, 2004
taikang art street
With the demolition or threatened demolition of artist’s villages and communities in Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shanghai as the glacial mental …
September 19, 2004
中国国际建筑艺术双年展 1st Architecture Biennale – Beijing
As Beijing is swathed in a landscape of construction and demolition, the 中国国际建筑艺术双年展 1st Architecture Biennale – Beijing opens today, …
September 12, 2004
2030 pearl river mega-city
By 2030, in a study reported on in the HK Standard, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong will have merged into …
September 10, 2004
金星 上海探戈 jin xing – shanghai tango
Shanghai choreographer and superstar 金星 Jin Xing’s dance performance 上海探戈 Shanghai Tango is being performed in Shanghai next weekend. The …
September 10, 2004
territories at para/site
Para/Site Art Space new gallery in Hong Kong has just celebrated its opening with the multi-media installations of Hong Kong-based …
September 9, 2004
asian labour news august summary
Asian Labour News published their monthly report on labour-related news for China a couple of days ago. This site is …
September 9, 2004
prostitution in china
Andrés Gentry has written one of the most in-depth and compassionate pieces on prostitution in China I have ever read. …
September 7, 2004
hurricane frances and storms in sichuan
It’s really cool to have a hurricane with your name on it, even if it has been ‘down-graded’ to a …
September 5, 2004
北京舞蹈学院 Beijing Dance Academy 50th anniversary
The 北京舞蹈学院 Beijing Dance Academy will be celebrating its 50th Anniversary next week, which has attracted little attention, but …
September 2, 2004
xu yong at 798 space
Xu Yong, who runs 798 Space in the Dashanzi arts district in Beijing, where the recent 大山子艺术节 Dashanzi International Arts …
September 1, 2004
hackers reveal china’s forbidden words
Here’s why hackers are are an invaluable part of the internet. China Digital News has an amazing piece on what …
August 31, 2004
pollution in China
The Economist published a fairly detailed article on the state of the environment in China, the levels of continuing degradation …
August 31, 2004
北京娃娃 Beijing Doll
Early this year, Asian Times wrote a long article on lingei, the Chinese equivalent of Gen-X. Chun Shu, the author …
August 31, 2004
drugs are bad m’kay
At a recent conference in Guangzhou the Ministry of Public Security, the same nebulous folks who brought you the guailo …
August 25, 2004
i like my noise noisy
In Guangzhou this Saturday, a group of noise-makers from across the city will be shaking the rotten concrete out of …
August 24, 2004
cultural revisionism
In a piece of historical revisionism that marks Revolutionary Worker as the inbred cousin of David Irving, the ‘magazine’ offers …
August 23, 2004
xanadu at the nla
Canberra’s National Library of Australia has just opened an exhibition of historical images from China, Xanadu – Encounters with China …
August 22, 2004
chinese sci-fi and fantasy
zhwj 中国幻想文学基地 is the one-stop shop for anything to do with Science-Fiction (科幻 kehuan) and Fantasy (奇幻 qihuan) coming …
August 22, 2004
first posts
Single Planet celebrates one year in Blogistan with a post on the first posts of many of the Chinese blog …
August 22, 2004
chinese transsexuals at the olympics
A while ago, I wrote about the IOC making moves to allows transsexuals to compete in the Olympics. A couple …
August 21, 2004
green card
Something I could really have done with last time I was in China to avoid the regular visits to the …
August 21, 2004
baiyun airport opens
The new 白云飞机场 Baiyun International Airport opened recently, which I’m looking forward to flying in to and schlepping around in …
August 3, 2004
asian labour news
Asian Labour News is a source of labour issues in China and Southern Asia which is daily read for me, …
August 3, 2004
southern metropolis daily
What happened in Guangzhou when a graphic design student got arrested by the police for not having a temporary residence …
August 3, 2004
china’s rural divide
The New York Times is running a series of articles, The Great Divide, on the widening gap between the affluent …
August 1, 2004
dance and music at sleepywood
Yesterday at Sleepywood Bar – 枕木酒吧in Guangzhou, dancers from the 广东现代舞团Guangdong Modern Dance Company and musicians from the Orchestra got …
July 31, 2004
comrades at trainspotting
This weekend at trainspotting in Beijing, there’s a mini-festival of queer films from China. If the sight of two men …
July 31, 2004
北京现代舞团 beijing modern dance company – 《逆光》- rear light
北京现代舞团 – beijing modern dance company, one of the three or four contemporary dance companies in mainland China is getting …
July 26, 2004
hidden hero – the films of chang cheh
The Melbourne International Film Festival has just started, and amidst more good celluloid outside of your local 6 kuai DVD …
July 25, 2004
stainless steel mouse
I’d heard about the stainless steel mouse for a while now, but didn’t know any details beyond she’s been arrested …
July 24, 2004
chinese sci-fi and fantasy
Having just ripped through all of Iain M. Bank’s Culture books, and run out of stuff to read, I’ve been …
July 24, 2004
Iain Mott at 大山子艺术节 Dashanzi Art Festival
ANAT, The Australian Network for Art and Technology have just published the July-October issue of Filter devoted to sound. One …
July 19, 2004
qian fuchang and the text-message novel
The BBC News and every second news media are reporting about Chinese author Qian Fuchang, who has written a novel …
July 17, 2004
35 000 days in asia
Asialink’s book 35 000 days in asia is being launched on Thursday 22 July, celebrating 10 years of arts residencies …
July 11, 2004
doing nothing anywhere
Vitamin Creative Space in Guangzhou recently had a project do nothing anywhere at the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in …
July 11, 2004
china and taiwan
An excellent article appeared over at Living in China, on why China won’t bomb the crap out of Taiwan despite …
July 10, 2004
中国农民调查 An Investigation of China’s Peasantry
A couple of months ago, everyone was amazed that a book which chronicled the shitty lives, abuse and endemic corruption …
July 10, 2004
symphonies in asia
Time Asia writes on the rise of Symphony Orchestras and western classical music in China and Asia, with the appointment …
July 9, 2004
colour pollution
Hanging out on Er Sha Dao in the evening, the new apartment blocks on both sides of the river which …
July 7, 2004
崔子恩 《丑角登场》 Cui Zi’en – Enter The Clowns
Something I wish I’d known about last time I was in China are the films of Cui Zi’en. There is …
July 7, 2004
humanism in china
Humanism in China, the photographic exhibition which started at the Guangzhou Museum of Art in December 2003, and travelled to …
July 3, 2004
1個歧視 – A Discrimination
Live Home 3 has an exhibition 1個歧視 – A Discrimination on at the moment, with a number of local artists …
June 29, 2004
shanghai diaspora
A number of attempts to save the hutong in big cities from noddy-town toilet architecture developments, and to preserve something …
June 28, 2004
shen wei and ADF
Shen Wei arrived in the US in 1995 from the Guangdong Modern Dance Company. Nine years later, he has his …
June 27, 2004
climbing in beijing
The magazine that got me out of my apartment and finding Guangzhou has a cover story on the one thing …
June 27, 2004
films at 798 factories
798 Factories, the gallery/bookshop/bar scene in Beijing in a glorious old East German high-modernist arms factory screened two films last …
June 26, 2004
zhang dali – chinese offspring
One thing missing in China is the pervasive graffiti of tags, pieces, hip-hop art which you can see in almost …
June 26, 2004
internet under surveillance
Reporters Sans Frontiers recently released their report Internet Under Surveillance, which includes a country-by-country analysis of “Obstacles to the free …
June 23, 2004
China’s ‘gray’ publishing
This article on That’s Magazines explore the vile legal world of publishing in China.
Shanghai. (Interfax-China) – A potential dispute is …
June 23, 2004
where are all the good looking chinese girls?
The Straits Times has a bunch of filler between ads on the wild world of beauty contests that are rampant …
June 18, 2004
Guangdong Symphony Orchestra in Sydney
The Guangdong Symphony Orchestra blew into town on Thursday for a one-nighter at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall performing …
June 17, 2004
台北雙年展 Taipei Biennale
The Taipei Fine Arts Museum has announced that Amy Cheng Huei-hua (Taiwan) and Barbara M.R. Vanderlinden (Belgium) will be curating …
June 17, 2004
cui jian – the father of chinese rock n roll
asia pacific arts has an interview with Cui Jian, the ‘father of Chinese rock n roll’, who started out playing …
June 15, 2004
artv
Anyone watching SBS late at night might wonder “what-the-fuck is Connex (or whatever the trains are called now) pushing?” when …
June 12, 2004
小谷围 Xiaoguwei artist village demolished
The 小谷围 Xiaoguwei artist village in Guangzhou, about 17 kilometers from the city centre is being demolished. The 165 villas …
June 12, 2004
no horror please, we’re chinese
Why can’t I see scary movies in China? Because it seems they are on a not-welcome-here list that includes all …
June 12, 2004
PRC news china briefing 2004-06-11
Winds of Change – Regional Briefings have their regular update of things going on in China. It’s a very good …
June 12, 2004
rive droite
Something has been happening in Guangzhou in the last year, which always seems like the poor second child to Beijing …
June 11, 2004
between past and future
The massive 10 year retrospective Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China has just opened in New …
June 11, 2004
new media arts in Beijing
The international New Media Arts Exhibition Millenium Dialogue is running in Beijing at the moment, with students and lecturers from …
June 8, 2004
Baiyun airport
I like a good airport, especially because I don’t have to good fortune to belong to any airport club where …
June 8, 2004
Yin Xiuzhen – Portable Cities
Making the most of airports, Beijing artist Yin Xiezhen is exhibiting two installations at the Sydney Biennale, Portable Cities and …
June 7, 2004
Wang Qingsong makes art
Opening in a couple of days on June 11 is Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, …
June 7, 2004
too many buildings not enough subways
There’s nothing like hanging out along the Pearl River at night, whether it’s down near Shamian Island or on Er …
June 7, 2004
06-04
I wasn’t going to blog about this at all, especially because so many other people have done so and are …
June 7, 2004
Hearts of Iron and Ken Park
The story of Hearts of Iron and China’s irony-free Ministry of Culture has been small print for a couple of …
June 4, 2004
第三现场 3 Live Home – Rhythm Construction
Things are going wild at 第三现场 3 Live Home this month. This week is the first hip-hop week in Guangzhou, …
June 4, 2004
onedotzero in Beijing + Shanghai
China Daily has a piece on onedotzero the festival of digital film making its way to Beijing and Shanghai in …
May 31, 2004
广东实验现代舞团 Guangdong Modern Dance Company at Venice Biennale
The 广东实验现代舞团 Guangdong Modern Dance Company will be performing for the first time in Venice this month at la biennale …
May 30, 2004
Time of Disasters
Sick of watching Hollywood beat the crap out of New York in every disaster movie from ,Towering Inferno to The …
May 29, 2004
Chinese as it is spoke
Following hard on the heels of French banning ‘le weekend’ and Quebec’s plans for air-traffic controllers to speak the international …
May 26, 2004
beauty pageant cries “just say no”
110 000 kuai and plenty of knife work wasn’t enough to buy Yang Yuan a place in the Beijing leg …
May 26, 2004
广州声纳 sounding guangzhou
The 广东要是现代无团 Guangdong Modern Dance Company is host this weekend to Sounding Guangzhou, International Electronic Art Symposium. The symposium …
May 23, 2004
Box of Changes
Architect Peter Eisenman took part in a competition recently to design a new museum and public square in the heart …
May 23, 2004
Chinese Mountaineering Team on K2
The climbing season on K2 has kicked off, with 54 expeditions attempting to summit the mountain made famous by prominent …
May 20, 2004
宋庄画家村画廊 10 years of Songzhuang Artist Village Gallery
Ten years ago Renzhuang village, a spit from the center of Beijing in the Tongzhou district, became the home of …
May 19, 2004
iTunes loves China
Apple has done a deal with Founder one of the largest suppliers of PCs in China to have their computers …
May 19, 2004
Smells like teen spirit
One day there’s too many queer westerners causing television presenters to dye their hair unnatural colours, expose too much flesh …
May 17, 2004
好死不如赖活着 To Live Is Better Than to Die
In the early 90’s poor farmers across rural China made a few extra kuai by selling their blood. The syringes …
May 15, 2004
798 Factories – great article shame about the title
The 大山字 Dashanzi Arts Festival at 798 Factories made the news in Australia today, and not just in buried in …
May 15, 2004
798 Factories books
The 798 Factories Dashanzi Arts Festival is going on at the moment, and for those of us who can’t make …
May 15, 2004
Internet – opiate of the masses
China and the internet is one of those topics which gets swung around and made to represent whatever position the …
May 14, 2004
Topologies of the Instant – n+n corsino
N+N Corsino are two French choreographers from Marseille. or one choreographer and one mathematician, who don’t make dance in theatres, …
May 14, 2004
江湖 Jianghu banned
Eric Tsang has had 江湖 Jianghu banned in China, the triad movie he hoped would reinvent the genre. Tsang chose …
May 14, 2004
There goes the neighbourhood
At the place where 金沙江 Jinsha Jiang bashes headlong into a mountain and does an abrupt 90 degree change of …
May 13, 2004
Tarantino and the pirates of China
Cannes Film Festival opened today, with three films from China in the Feature Films sections, two actors, Maggie Cheung and …
May 12, 2004
Zhang Lin again
Zhang Lin, got married during the May Day holiday. Nothing unusual about that, except she used to be a guy …
May 10, 2004
BMX Bandits
The cover story of this month’s That’s Guangzhou is devoted to bikes, BMX and the emerging scene in Guangzhou of …
May 10, 2004
Wenders, Xue, Laib at 广东美术馆 GDMoA
While Beijing has 大山子艺术节 Dashanzi Yishu Jie – Dashanzi Art Festival at 798 Group Factories, Guangzhou is also going art-crazy …
May 9, 2004
Architecture in Beijing
The future of Beijing architecture is roads, motorways, expressways, and making more and bigger urban streets. Xinhuanet wrote about the …
May 7, 2004
首届北京国际新媒体艺术展暨研讨会 – First Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition and Symposium
Tsinghua University in Beijing, together with ZKM | Centre for Art and Media from Germany, and V2_ from Nederlands will …
May 6, 2004
同志 tongzhi queers in China
The fifth 同志 Tongzhi conference has just wrapped up in Hong Kong, where thanks to easing of border restrictions many …
May 5, 2004
No change in forty years, 焦國標 Jiao Guobian on propaganda
Much is being made of 焦國標 Jiao Guobian, journalism professor at Beijing University who wrote a vitriolic attack against the …
May 4, 2004
大山子艺术节 Dashanzi Yishu Jie – Dashanzi Art Festival at 798 Group Factories
Beijing is becoming the home of avant-garde art in China according to several newspapers which ran the article on 798 …
May 4, 2004
Reporters Sans Frontiers China Annual Report 2004
Reporters Sans Frontiers China Annual Report 2004
Reporters Sans Frontiers have released their Annual Report on China. The major event of …
May 3, 2004
World Press Freedom Day – not in China
Today is World Press Freedom Day, which is not a celebration, more of a remembering those killed, tortured, imprisoned, and …
May 3, 2004
八九点钟的太阳 Morning Sun, A Documentary Film
Asialink is presenting the premiere screening in Melbourne next week of 八九点钟的太阳 bajiudian de taiyan – Morning Sun, on Tuesday …
May 2, 2004
博客 boke the Chinese blog revolution
Day two of China’s Digital Future covered a huge amount of topics, all of which are again reviewed in brief …
May 2, 2004
Happy Labour day now get down that mine
As International Labour Day rolls by, China Labour Bulletin released some figures for reported deaths and injuries in the country’s …
May 2, 2004
Rural poor get inane aphorisms instead of equality
I’ve been on a book-buying spree today, one of the luxuries of having an income at the moment. In all, …
May 2, 2004
China’s Digital Future
UC Berkeley is running a conference at the moment on China’s Digital Future Advancing The Understanding of China’s Information Revolution. …
April 29, 2004
小谷围 Xiaoguwei: Development 1 Art 0
The 小谷围 Xiaoguwei artist village in Southern Guangzhou, home of the Lingnan School of painting where almost 200 artists, architects, …
April 29, 2004
ID Sniper debuts at China Police weapons fair
In June 2002, Jacob S. Boeskov, the CEO of Empire North, a young Danish Hi-Tech weapons company travelled to Beijing …
April 29, 2004
The Other Path – Landscape Initiatives project
Geri Wittig presented an overview of the C5 Landscape Initiative project at Beijing’s China Central Academy of Fine Arts yesterday. …
April 29, 2004
SARS prevented by group showers
In the renewed fight against SARS, the propaganda posters from the Cultural Revolution have been put to good use. Maybe …
April 28, 2004
首届广东现代舞蹈周 1st Guangdong Contemporary Dance Festival
广州 Guangzhou is becoming the festival capital of China, and home to more dance per square meter than any other …
April 28, 2004
A big stinking shithole
Last xinnian, I travelled to Sichuan with the intention of going up to Jiuzhaigou for a couple of weeks. New …
April 27, 2004
The ‘new’ Silk Route
A new treaty has been signed by 23 nations at a UN meeting to create multiple landlinks between Khabarovsk and …
April 27, 2004
Zhang Lin gets married
Sometimes China really manages to get it right, like 10 years ahead of the rest of the world. Not …
April 26, 2004
Unemployed given nice uniforms
Xinhua and Channel News Asia reported a White Paper has been released today on the situation of the 161 million …
April 26, 2004
This is why we’re in power and you’re not
The Standing Committee of China’s parliament insane dictatorship, the National People’s Congress ruled today that Hong Kong will not have …
April 24, 2004
Chinese no funny
Vice Magazine. A bunch of cut-rate losers from Canada. Last month, their International Department advanced the so-close-we’re-moist bilateral relationship between …
April 24, 2004
Between Past and Future
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China is a retrospective of 10 years of contemporary video and …
April 24, 2004
2046 nominated for Cannes Film Fest
王家卫 Wong Kar Wai, director of some of my favourite films including Fallen Angels has had his mysterious science-fiction romance …
April 24, 2004
SARS is back
Last year we were on the train from Wuhan to Guangzhou when we got a barrage of text messages warning …
April 24, 2004
Poison & chemical deaths in China
China has a pretty piss-weak workers’ safety record, but is it just me or have the last couple of weeks …
April 20, 2004
Open Gesture – Guangdong Museum of Art
Following on from the Post Generation and New Century exhibitions of contemporary Chinese artists, 广东美术馆 Guangdong Museum of Art new …
April 20, 2004
My life with Hepatitis B
China has a dazzling record for skillful and compassionate management of health crisises. While its well-considered denial and mismanagement of …
April 18, 2004
PRC News China Briefing: 2004-04-14
Winds of Change.NET Regional Briefings run regular updates on news around the world. This update appeared there on April 14, …
April 17, 2004
别 爱 人 bie ai ren – Photos
广东实验现代舞团 Guangdong Shiyan Xiandai Wu Tuan – Guangdong Modern Dance Company choreographer 龙云娜 Long Yunna has sent me photos of …
April 17, 2004
Reefer Madness in China
Like every western country, the youth of China are getting turned on to the pleasure of getting wasted; dropping into …
April 17, 2004
Tiananmen artists in Australia
Fifteen years ago today, the events that resulted in the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing began. The most visual display …
April 8, 2004
别 爱 人 bie ai ren – 3 human basics
别爱人 bie ai ren is the new contemporary dance work by the internationally renowned Guangzhou-based Guangdong Modern Dance Company.
Bie Ai …