primo levi – if not now, when?
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 31, 2010
reading: g. whitney azoy – buzkashi – game and power in afghanistan
g. whitney azoy – buzkashi
January 21, 2010
reading: christopher i. beckwith – empires of the silk road
christopher i. beckwith – empires of the silk road
January 21, 2010
reading: iranophobia – the logic of an israeli obsession – haggai ram
iranophobia – haggai ram
January 10, 2010
Reading: Feng Jicai – Voices from the Whirlwind
feng jicai – voices from the whirlwind
January 7, 2010
Reading: Katherine Pratt Ewing – Stolen Honor – Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin
katherine pratt ewing – stolen honor
November 3, 2009
Reading… a 2nd anniversary
My reading the last year has not been of either the volume, nor the breadth of the previous, in no …
October 25, 2009
orgy of tolerance
To have your idols disappoint. It is a delicious sensation. And probably inevitable, necessary.
My Friday Antwerp wanderings, despite the sublime …
August 17, 2009
save the vca
It is a long time ago now, camping on the lawn outside the front of Victorian College of the Arts …
August 5, 2009
a chronology of burnt-out corpses
Mainly that I laughed and snorted when I read the title and looked at the familiar map of Berlin drowned …
July 19, 2009
Gunter Kroemer
Over much of this year I’ve been working with Christian Ender on rebuilding the code of one of his documentary …
June 16, 2009
Reading: Alexandra Richie – Faust’s Metropolis – A History of Berlin
alexandra richie – faust’s metropolis
June 1, 2009
Reading: Zhao Ziyang – Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang
zhao ziyang – prisoner of the state
May 17, 2009
buchstabenmuseum
I’m not sure where I stumbled upon this, but it wasn’t so long ago and immediately thought of someone whose …
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 …
January 22, 2009
a retrospective
Sitting in my lounge with Daniel talking about dance and my old works, many of which I am still very …
January 21, 2009
things to do at silverfuture this weekend
Because I haven’t been there for oh so too long, and I need a bit of queer drunkenness… and books …
January 18, 2009
Annemarie Schwarzenbach
And so I discovered Annamarie Schwarzenbach, who to a certain kind of Berlinerin is probably quite famous, yet in English …
January 12, 2009
Israel’s bombardment of Gaza is not self-defence – it’s a war crime
This letter of attorneys and academics appeared in the Times of London on Sunday. I suggest that all bloggers who …
January 4, 2009
re.act.feminism – performancekunst der 1960er und 70er jahre heute
Still dark, before 6am, lying in bed, the clouded sky lighting the city and me already with coffee and reading, …
January 3, 2009
Top Ten (Plus 1) Good News Stories in the Muslim World, 2008 (That Nobody Noticed)
Cheerful Saturday morning reading I thought I’d post in its entirety, though I do think anyone who has the slightest …
December 14, 2008
reading: jeanette winterson – oranges are not the only fruit
jeanette winterson – oranges are not the only fruit
November 30, 2008
reading: wildwood – a journey through trees – roger deakin
wildwood – a journey through trees – roger deakin
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, …
November 12, 2008
landwehrkanal
Along the Landwehrkanal on my bicycle going west, some blue sky and sun today, though cold. I kept riding till …
October 20, 2008
lustgarten und der palast der republic
It was an assignment for German class, to wander from the Goethe Institut to Hackescher Markt and then across the …
October 19, 2008
where i was last night…
When people ask me why I came to Berlin, I say, well partly for the dance, and partly for living. …
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, …
October 14, 2008
reading: iain m banks – feersum endjinn (5th time), the algebraist (2nd time)
iain m banks – the algebraist
iain m banks – feersum endjinn
October 12, 2008
Reading: Walter Benjamin – Berlin Childhood around 1900
The last few days I have enjoyed the rather delectable company of a hobo formerly from Berlin, now residing in …
September 18, 2008
englisch buchhandlungen aus berlin
(I was waiting until I’d visited a few more bookshops, but I’ve been distracted with writing applications, and know it …
September 7, 2008
reading: books from zürich…
Lacking new reading, and I am suffering, I have been opening my suitcase of books from my life in Zürich …
September 4, 2008
köpenickenstr wagenburg
I’ll try and remember where I began. It was last night. Was I searching for something for someone? Was I …
August 16, 2008
chuang tzu again…
About a week ago, a quote from Chuang Tzu turned up on The Useless Tree (another shortly after explaining just …
August 12, 2008
reading: leslie feinburg – stone butch blues
Yes, I finally bought it, on a trip to Prinz Eisenherz, oh such a joy to find this, and then …
July 26, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 10)
I’ve been meaning to say something about my apartment, I mean to say, where I’m staying. The woman who let …
July 16, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 2)
I ate prunes today. I went to find coffee, and found myself with chocolate croissant and mélange in a dainty …
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 21, 2008
saint uncle judith… jude… i mean judy
I’m not sure of the trail that led me to spending some of an afternoon reading interviews with Judith Butler, …
June 13, 2008
jan dunning
When the Liberals won the elections in 2004, my only consolation was that shortly after I departed for a few …
June 12, 2008
chingiz aitmatov
I only recently discovered him, and was looking forward to reading The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years, when …
June 8, 2008
Reading: again… some for the fifth time…
Suffering from a paucity of new books the last two weeks, and packing mine all away in preparation for inevitable …
June 6, 2008
Reading: Harriet Evans – The Subject of Gender: Daughters and Mothers in Urban China
harriet evans – the subject of gender
June 5, 2008
Reading: Julian Burnside – Watching Brief: Reflections on Human Rights, Law and Justice
julian burnside – watching brief
June 3, 2008
Protected: making our bodies home
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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 …
May 14, 2008
Reading: Antonio Giustozzi – Koran, Kalashnikov and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan 2002-2007
koran, kalashnikov and laptop
March 29, 2008
swanhilda is a punk
Daniel is having showings of the development of his new work this weekend with some of Adelaide’s most wild and …
March 21, 2008
Reading: Michel Foucault – Madness and Civilisation
michel foucault – madness and civilisation
March 6, 2008
Reading: Taliban – Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia – Ahmed Rashid
taliban – ahmed rashid
February 25, 2008
Reading: Susan Mann – The Talented Women of the Zhang Family
susan mann – the talented women of the zhang family
February 25, 2008
Reading: Rosanne Klass – Land of the High Flags: Afghanistan When the Going Was Good
rosanne klass – land of the high flags
February 17, 2008
Reading: Anne Fausto-Sterling – Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
anne fausto-sterling- sexing the body
February 12, 2008
sorry
“Today we honour the Indigenous peoples of this land, the oldest continuing cultures in human history.
We reflect on their past …
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 …
February 1, 2008
reading: william gibson & bruce sterling – the difference engine
william gibson + bruce sterling – the difference engine
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 …
January 26, 2008
Reading: Charles Stross – The Atrocity Archives
charles stross – the atrocity archives
January 23, 2008
Blog for Choice day
Today marks thirty-five years since Roe vs. Wade. A number of my favourite blogs including Feministing and (en)gender posted on …
January 13, 2008
reading: julia serano – whipping girl – a transsexual woman on sexism and the scapegoating of femininity
julia serano – whipping girl
January 13, 2008
reading: lois may – transgenders and intersexuals – everything you ever wanted to know but couldn’t think of the question
lois may – transgenders and intersexuals
December 9, 2007
Reading: Norman Page – Auden and Isherwood – The Berlin Years
norman page – auden and isherwood – the berlin years
November 22, 2007
kunst and the greens
Three years ago I was so happy to be leaving Australia immediately after the nauseating reelection of that repulsive clique …
November 18, 2007
november 20
This Tuesday is International Day of Transgender Remembrance. I should be dwelling on Happy Things today but it’s been a …
November 17, 2007
reading: terry pratchett…
terry pratchett – mort
terry pratchett – the colour of magic
terry pratchett – equal rites
terry pratchett – …
November 2, 2007
Protected: twiddling of thumbs
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October 10, 2007
mediocrity
Due to the content of my Ignition 7 – Gender Studies performance, all the people i can remember sleeping with…, …
July 3, 2007
Housewives on Fire
A conversation before the show: girl-a, “wanna sit in the front row?”, girl-b, “nah I don’t wanna be that close …
May 27, 2007
pre-breakfast tranny blogging
I’m really, really, really trying to blog more often but dialup connection that drops out every few minutes and …
April 6, 2007
friday atheist re-blogging
Being the day when a carpenter who has fantastically scant evidence for ever having existed in the first place was …
March 18, 2007
the end of dance writing
Around the time I was thinking about i want your dance, I stumbled across this excellent article on ImPulsTanz by …
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 8, 2007
… and death
Emile sent me possibly the most perfect condolences card after I told him about Jean Baudrillard dying yesterday. It made …
March 7, 2007
jean baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard died.
I’m so utterly devastated. He has been the single most important thinker, writer, philosopher for me, in my …
March 5, 2007
everything that has been said before about dance
Lining the walls of Chunky Move’s foyer are vast placards of performances, and above the sofas, those shows are the …
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 …
February 10, 2007
Protected: revenge of the lezzie shemale feminists
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February 1, 2007
Protected: god made you a boy
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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.
January 2, 2007
it’s all about the money #2
He could have ditched the first paragraph, stopped right at the end of the second sentence, and just copy-pasted that …
December 19, 2006
it’s all about the money
Slagging match of the week goes to Melbourne Festival vs. The Media, wherein Robin Usher tries to sound a rhetorical …
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 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 …
December 2, 2006
yeah, that’s what i think too
MySpace. What a desolate crevasse of meaninglessness, fake pseudo-friends, lowest-common-denominators in every realm of human imagination and obscenely poor coding. …
December 1, 2006
more on the Small Arts Sector Research Project
A couple of days ago I wrote about the new Small Arts Sector Research Project the Arts Industry Australia (Victoria) …
November 28, 2006
Small Arts Sector Research Project
For all the independent artists around in Melbourne this Friday, the Arts Industry Council (Victoria) has announced this meeting. Please …
November 27, 2006
fuck.dog
Two dancer/choreographers, slightly past emerging and maturing into fine mid-career torpor met for coffee this morning in East St Kilda, …
November 22, 2006
liberals arts policy: go fuck yourselves
I can’t quite articulate exactly how much I want to see the Victorian Liberals hurled bodily into a swampy, fetid …
November 17, 2006
first against the wall etc …
At first I wasn’t going to blog this, you know, another smarmy round of greasy dandruff-ridden back-slapping and syphilitic self-congratulation, …
November 9, 2006
shit if this is gonna’ be that kind of party
Actually it took longer than the time Rumsfeld used to announce he was bailing out of the White House to …
November 4, 2006
la mama – does anyone take ozco seriously anymore?
A few days ago, I was talking with someone about a certain hack from the Herald Sun, whose name evades …
October 30, 2006
some new blogs
About a week ago I was doing something and ended up splurting “contemporary dance” Melbourne into Google Blog Search. I …
October 26, 2006
i shit on ya – sheik taj aldin
Someone recently said about a United States school kid who got hauled up by the FBI for sedition over a …
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 16, 2006
a nature hike through the book of revelations
Sunday morning I arrived in Melbourne after three weeks in Adelaide, my fifth domestic flight since June and one of …
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 5, 2006
europe central
In another country, long enough ago to be only someone else’s life, I remember a summer entranced in my small …
October 3, 2006
we are no longer human
I really, really urge you all to read this article that appeared in Rolling Stone, The Unending Torture of Omar …
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 29, 2006
torture is evil unless we’re doing it
It was a unique moment today, killing time between rehearsals and reading the latest issue of Dance Australia while dozing …
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 23, 2006
the art of obliteration
Reblogging from We need money not art, the subtle, unintentional, council-approved art of erasing graffiti through semi-regular monotone blocks of …
September 2, 2006
what i read today
For a while I kept a del.ic.ious account (last updated almost two months ago). I also used to have one …
August 21, 2006
I know that I AM
Today was emotionally really shitty, the kind of day I want to finish by getting wasted, all teen-punk angst. Lucky …
August 15, 2006
good riddance
Normally I wouldn’t quote from The Age as it’s really little more than mediocre tabloid sensationalism, and if I want …
July 14, 2006
war and sport take centre stage
While having coffee with one choreographer who knows firsthand the House of Un-American Activities Commission blacklist trials that is Australian …
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 6, 2006
a knife in the guts for danceworks
While I was wandering in my lederhosen across the alps of western Yunnan, Arts Victoria announced they would not be …
June 26, 2006
korean law ruling allows change of sex
During the weeks I ventured west into the mountains, Korea’s Supreme Court was debating whether to permit male-to-female transsexuals to …
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 …
May 30, 2006
transsexual law in korea and japan
A couple of articles on the current legal and cultural positions of transsexuals in Japan and Korea broadly illustrates a …
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 27, 2006
Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual
Outside of my normal flippant abrogation of its meaning, there are not too many people for whom I genuinely reserve …
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
pretty good privacy
I thoroughly recommend reading this article on PGP, the introduction to PGP & GPG: Email for the Practical Paranoid, then …
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 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 …
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 15, 2006
hard art to void dead words
Every time I make a piece, and looking back on it, I think how much more intense and overwhelming it …
March 11, 2006
flying again
I’m flying to Hong Kong tomorrow, and then on to Guangzhou for a residency at Park19 until the end of …
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 …
February 24, 2006
reading some books
Today was a minor holiday after my 15 hour binge yesterday in DVD Studio Pro and the joy of sorting …
February 23, 2006
love this time and other berlin gems
The 56th Berlin Film Festival has just finished, and major yay! for Jasmila Zbanic’s Grbavica and Michael Winterbottom and Mat …
February 21, 2006
nothing left to do but vandalise shit
For a while I go so into playing Halo, and I mean so into it in the end I had …
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 …
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 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 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 10, 2005
a quarter of a billion
I’m taking a bit of a break from blogging, the return to Australia has left me with a disembodied sense …
December 5, 2005
don’t bomb us – al jazeera goes blog
Somehow, I think through one of the feeds I subscribe to, I stumbled upon what is one of the best …
November 13, 2005
art is treason
Just before I left Australia for Taiwan last year, the odious forces of imperialism, bizarrely named the Liberals got back …
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 …
October 28, 2005
human writes
Twice this week I’ve been asked to give wishes, the first a list of fifteen for a magazine, and the …
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
濁水溪公社 ltk commune is gonna rock you
During my months in Taipei, hanging out at The Wall, and pretty much constantly amazed at what a cool arts …
October 26, 2005
when jurisprudence lags behind reality
It’s a really nice idea that a post-operative transsexual can change their gender on their birth certificate and every other …
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 16, 2005
第二届广州三年展 pearl river art canton
I dunno, but I think having a triennial is a bit weird, coz by the time it comes around again, …
October 16, 2005
china’s changing landscape
The first time I took the KCR train from Hong Kong to Guangzhou I thought I’d arrived in Mordor. Endless …
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
the absence of hong kong art
Yan at Glutter got stuck into the abysmal state of contemporary arts in Hong Kong today, with My HK Contemporary …
October 2, 2005
architecture for dictators
Periodically Domus deals with architecture in Asia that goes beyond the mind-numbing childishness of Shanghai=good!!! and manages to make the …
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 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 13, 2005
shock! surprise! ozco doesn’t fund me for the eleventh time!
Who’d a fucking thought? I mean the odds were seriously in my favour: 11 applications and 0, zero, zero success, …
September 8, 2005
les dames du bois de bologne
While the media is getting particularly wet over Harisu, Lady and Nong Toom, and other famous transsexuals, and places like …
September 5, 2005
how to blog anonymously
Reporters sans Frontières have just released a booklet Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents, in several languages including Chinese. Alot of …
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 …
September 2, 2005
KJ #64: Special Issue on Gender in Asia
Kyoto Journal is seeking submissions for KJ#64 Gender in Asia, guest edited by contributing editor Sally McLaren. More information on …
August 23, 2005
women’s social rights are not critical to the evolution of democracy
I have pretty much steered clear saying anything about the great neo-colonial escapade in Iraq, despite keeping up with the …
August 20, 2005
miss waria indonesia 2005
Probably because it happened in late June when I was mostly living in airport lounges I missed the whole Miss …
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 17, 2005
transsexual soldiers, 20 years after halo jones
When I was a serious comic junkie and would spend waaay too much of my dole payments in the local …
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 15, 2005
April Ashley – Transsexuals have more fun
The Sydney Morning Herald, about the closest thing Australia gets to a newspaper, but still mostly a gossip rag had …
June 15, 2005
changing the law to match your gender
It shits me so much that something so obvious has to become the province of the law and the courts …
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
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 5, 2005
one law for them another for the rest of us
Eugene McGee is a lawyer. He got drunk, drove and killed a cyclist. He didn’t stop because he didn’t want …
April 14, 2005
Art is fanaticism that demands diplomacy.
Back in the early 90s, Laibach stomped around in pseudo-facist uniforms, banged drums with fanatic zeal and blonde hair like …
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 …
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 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?” …
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 …
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 25, 2005
bush’s inauguration, america celebrates
I don’t usually write about American politics, but this is an exception, from a post on one of the boards …
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 14, 2005
free public lynching
The issue with Australia Council for the Arts eviscerating the New Media Arts Board has had a slight hiatus over …
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 …
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 21, 2004
ANAT on the murder of the new media art board
Keeping on with the news that the government has decided to destroy the new media arts board of the Australia …
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 9, 2004
new media arts wasted
Part two of the news that Australia Council is trashing the New Media Arts Board. I’m posting this email in …
December 9, 2004
australia council dumps new media arts board
This morning, the Fibreculture mailing-list was dealing with what will rank as one of the worst decisions made in Australian …
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 …
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 20, 2004
《水火祭 disaster solemnity troy 特洛依》at huashan
In-between Co4 Documenta and UBU a bunch of artists and me spent a couple of hours sitting and drinking on …
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
shit place for a swim
The Three Gorges dam is nothing much more than a giant toilet, slowing to a grinding halt the flow of …
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 14, 2004
it park – chen kaihuang tchenogramme
Last night, the 伊通公園 ItPark in I-Tong St near the TAV had the opening of 陳愷璜 Chen Kai-Huang’s 關於 …
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 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 10, 2004
jacques is dead
Jacques Derrida is dead.
I met him in 1997, when I was at VCA and Elizabeth Presa had organised the …
October 10, 2004
axis of evil
I’m considering applying for refugee status to the Belgium Consulate.
Howard winning the election again, gaining votes, and the emergence …
October 4, 2004
art and freedom vs. money in shanghai
With the recent issues in Australia of arts funding being sent on a round trip through the local abbatoir, and …
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 …
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 24, 2004
baghdad year zero
I haven’t written about the war in Iraq, or the radical conservative politics and coming elections either in America or …
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 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 9, 2004
華山 huashan – when art becomes industry
What’s in a name? When it comes to art, there’s a big world between an arts and cultural centre, and …
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 3, 2004
“Let the bodies hit the floor…that was the motto for our tank.”
Last night the ABC screened one of the most disturbing documentaries I’ve seen in a long while. Soundtrack To War …
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
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 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 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 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 …
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 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 9, 2004
colour pollution
Hanging out on Er Sha Dao in the evening, the new apartment blocks on both sides of the river which …
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 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 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 …
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
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
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 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 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
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
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 1, 2004
We are traffic
Last night was the first night ride of the year of Critical Mass, that party on wheels, the rolling two-wheeled …
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
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 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
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
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
Reefer Madness in China
Like every western country, the youth of China are getting turned on to the pleasure of getting wasted; dropping into …