It’s 春節! Time to eat Jiaozi and other yummy street food (mmm… luobogao!) and sit on a train for 24 …
January 19, 2012
Reading: Seung-Joon Lee — Gourmets in the Land of Famine: The Culture and Politics of Rice Consumption in Modern Canton
The last of my first stack of books for 2012, and one that has been on my list for a …
January 19, 2012
Reading: Paul A. Van Dyke — The Canton Trade: Life and Enterprise on the China Coast, 1700-1845
Continuing my return to reading China, as with my focus on women in the history of China, so too is …
October 29, 2011
Reading: Gordon Mathews — Ghetto at the Center of the World
I once stayed a night in Chungking Mansions, when a flight from Canada arrived too late to catch even the …
October 19, 2011
Reading … a 4th anniversary
Another year of books. Not as many as last year; I took a pause for some time, unable to find …
September 23, 2011
Reading: Julia Lovell – The Opium War
Canton. The idea is romantic, and unavoidably one of Orientalism. Still, I lived there on and off for a few …
August 1, 2011
Places
Because I seem to spend so much time in Brussels, and also have lived in several cities which until now …
April 6, 2011
reading: vera schwarcz – the chinese enlightenment: intellectuals and the legacy of the may fourth movement of 1919
vera schwarcz – the chinese enlightenment
May 6, 2010
reading: Leslie T. Chang – Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
Leslie T. Chang – Factory Girls
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, …
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 …
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 …
September 26, 2007
中秋节快乐！！！
mmmm … mooncakes … green tea mooncake with one yolk hong kong elegant flavour
May 30, 2007
stir-fried poultry
I had some time spare yesterday amidst the stream of meetings and appointments, so went on a hot date with …
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 a …
April 18, 2007
homeless dance co
In-between rehearsing, last night I drifted up to the 4th floor of Asialink for drinks and hanging out with the …
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 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 getting …
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 …
December 18, 2006
我的小飛機場 my little airport
Walking to a bookshop, walking to East St Kilda, walking through Alma Park, listening to my iPod and I was …
December 11, 2006
英西峰林走廊攀岩 rock climbing in qingyuan county
Under many different names but mostly known to us as Kowloon as in what Mongkok is a part of in …
October 25, 2006
ghost eyes: strange visions from hong kong and beyond
From curator of international kebabs Emile Zile, also famous in Melbourne for FOOTSCRAY AUDIO-VISUAL SOCIAL CLUB is the fruits of …
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 …
May 30, 2006
shenzhen beautiful transsexual photo studio
Having been tardy in writing about anything that attracts the most readers, and a bit of a follow-on from a …
May 30, 2006
KCR Guangzhou to Dongguan again
My once monthly trip to Hong Kong was under a leaden and saturated sky. Guangzhou and much of the province …
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 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 …
March 14, 2006
somewhere in asia…
When I get jammed into an aisle seat and told, “Aw, just put yer legs in the aisle”, coz I’m …
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 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 …
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 1, 2006
錄影太奇 videotage blogging at MAG@V
錄影太奇 Videotage in Hong Kong I know better for 跳格 – JUMPING FRAMES@HKDF2006, the annual dance film/video festival that’s part …
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 …
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 23, 2005
airport lounging
I’m travelling to Hong Kong early Friday morning so my abuse of bandwidth and the internet has slowed to a …
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 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 26, 2005
跳格 – Jumping Frames 2006
JUMPING FRAMES@HKDF2006, the Hong Kong Dance Video Festival that is part of the Hong Kong Dance Festival is open for …
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 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
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 23, 2005
ipod subway maps
I have nothing else to add, except a) I now wish I’d bought an iPod Photo or nano instead of …
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
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 …
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 …
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 24, 2005
folding fiction
Besides an impulse cinema trip to see Star Wars – Revenge of the Sith (which seemed to leave lots of …
May 19, 2005
south of the border
I’m heading down to Hong Kong tomorrow for a bunch of stuff, but mainly to see Balletlab’s Phillip Adams’ new …
May 19, 2005
stranger than fiction
Australia’s only true genius, Phillip Adams has been shacked up in Hong Kong, a mere spit from Guangzhou. He’s been …
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 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 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 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 10, 2005
RE:Wanchai – Hong Kong International Artists’ Workshop
The 國際藝術家交流工作坊(香港) Hong Hong International Artists’ Workshop has invited 12 local and international artists to be in residence during April. …
April 4, 2005
Curiosities: post-art from the edge
Para/Sit Art Space in Hong Kong has recently opened an installation exhibition of four artists from Hong Kong, Australia, Japan …
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 …
March 22, 2005
para/site messes with lenses
Parasite Art Space in Sheung Wan opened Take a ST/Roll 圓．遊．會 earlier this month, which is running until mid-April and …
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 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. …
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
香江大舞台 fragrant river showgirls
There’s a show going on at night at the Wah Fu Estate in West Hong Kong Island that’s open to …
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 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 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 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 …
January 19, 2005
architecture of density
The Robert Kock Gallery in San Francisco is exhibiting the large-scale photographs of Hong Kong-based artist Michael Wolf until the …
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 attention …
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
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 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 …
October 31, 2004
arriving in taipei
Another blindingly early start on the jet-fuel trail. I divide my flights up into sections: 1) taxi to Guangzhou East …
September 26, 2004
lesbians wanted for documentary
I saw this at Wrong Place Right Time in Hong Kong, and I’m posting it here again because I get …
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 dance …
September 23, 2004
城市當代舞蹈團 ccdc – silver rain
城市當代舞蹈團CCDC in Hong Kong is currently celebrating its 25th anniversary, and tonight is performing Silver Rain at the Hong Kong …
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
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 …
August 24, 2004
great technology crappy game
In a sweatily adolescent application of great technology, Hong Kong’s Artificial Life have just announced the release of a new …
August 22, 2004
陳果 – 三更二之一: 餃子 Fruit Chan – Dumplings
陳果 Fruit Chan’s latest movie, 餃子 Dumplings has just opened in Hong Kong, one third of a horror series Three …
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 …
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 11, 2004
Daniel Yeung – Metalove
Choreographer Daniel Yeung, creator of the giant projected arsehole in his 2002 work Play Boys is back again with a …
May 23, 2004
Maggie Cheung Best Actress at Cannes
张曼玉 Maggie Cheung has won best actress award at Cannes for her role in French film Clean, directed by Olivier …
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 8, 2004
跳格 Tiaoge – Jumping Frames
跳格Tiaoge Jumping Frames, the Hong Kong Dance Video project between 城市當代舞蹈團 – chengshi dangdai wudao tuan CCDC and Videotage is …
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 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 …