新年快乐!— Hoping the trains run on time

It’s 春節! Time to eat Jiaozi and other yummy street food (mmm… luobogao!) and sit on a train for 24 …

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 …

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 …

Reading … a 4th anniversary

Another year of books. Not as many as last year; I took a pause for some time, unable to find …

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 …

Places

Because I seem to spend so much time in Brussels, and also have lived in several cities which until now …

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新年快乐

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transgender day of remembrance

For any queer trans* Berliners who read me, there is a meeting tomorrow night 6pm, at my favourite bar, Silverfuture, …

Global Voices Summit – Budapest

Some of my favourite and also most inspiring bloggers, writers, wonderful computer and internet people are all in Budapest for …

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 …

中秋节快乐!!!

mmmm … mooncakes … green tea mooncake with one yolk hong kong elegant flavour

stir-fried poultry

I had some time spare yesterday amidst the stream of meetings and appointments, so went on a hot date with …

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 …

homeless dance co

In-between rehearsing, last night I drifted up to the 4th floor of Asialink for drinks and hanging out with the …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

art art art … noise

In a pathetic effort to make up for a few days of blaring silence, with 2am crawls to bed, hour …

cosplayers in hong kong

Two nights in Hong Kong, picking up Emile and Paul from the airport, playing tourist across Kowloon and Central, seeing …

somewhere in asia…

When I get jammed into an aisle seat and told, “Aw, just put yer legs in the aisle”, coz I’m …

fengdu’s erased horizon

Daily reading of Diacritic, and this reminded me alot – in an almost diametrically opposite way – of the photography …

destination prd

In my daily ploughing through a couple of hundred RSS feeds, I read from Danwei, there’s a new quarterly magazine …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

airport lounging

I’m travelling to Hong Kong early Friday morning so my abuse of bandwidth and the internet has slowed to a …

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 …

daily blog reading

I went through my blog bookmarks a couple of days ago, which now number several folders with 15 or more …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

ipod subway maps

I have nothing else to add, except a) I now wish I’d bought an iPod Photo or nano instead of …

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 …

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 …

slumming it in vevey

The most skanky flight I have ever had in my life was on the weekend, Hong Kong to Bangkok, to …

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 …

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, …

folding fiction

Besides an impulse cinema trip to see Star Wars – Revenge of the Sith (which seemed to leave lots of …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

contemporary dance must die

A triple bill. Three times the fun. The 2nd Guangzhou Dance Festival is almost over, and Thursday night it was …

jiulong super-crag

Jiulong turned into a bit of a tourist town this weekend. Three carloads of climbers plus a few others ate …

when art goes bad

Last night was not quite the beginning of the week of dance at the 2nd Guangzhou Dance Festival, but was …

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 …

travelling again

I leave for Hong Kong and Guangzhou tomorrow for a couple of months making horrible art before heading over to …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

they rule

Just in case you had any illusions about the benevolence of the Chinese communist party, who’ve shared the love three …

travelling again

I’ve been travelling most of the week, leaving Guangzhou on Tuesday and heading to Melbourne for the next six weeks. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

UBU and TRSIMF

One festival finishes, another begins. Last night was the final of three ear-splitting nights of some of the best rock …

arriving in taipei

Another blindingly early start on the jet-fuel trail. I divide my flights up into sections: 1) taxi to Guangzhou East …

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 …

i-dance festival

Currently in the middle of their 25th anniversary celebrations, CCDC has also just been involved in the first independent dance …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Daniel Yeung – Metalove

Choreographer Daniel Yeung, creator of the giant projected arsehole in his 2002 work Play Boys is back again with a …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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