frank dikötter – mao’s great famine
February 5, 2008 – 3:03 pm
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 …
September 9, 2007 – 1:12 pm
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 …
June 19, 2007 – 10:30 pm
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 30, 2007 – 8:07 pm
stir-fried poultry
I had some time spare yesterday amidst the stream of meetings and appointments, so went on a hot date with …
April 23, 2007 – 9:36 am
new photography in guangzhou
All month I’ve been meaning to blog this, but attack of laziness and other things to keep me occupied meant …
February 26, 2007 – 12:54 pm
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 – 5:01 pm
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 …
December 11, 2006 – 10:26 pm
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 …
December 10, 2006 – 12:12 am
超牛b的余震 － Aftershock in Guangzhou
ex-Feng37 has been burning a posting storm through Canton recently, and I suspect he’s moved out of Fangcun and found …
December 1, 2006 – 6:14 pm
2006中国(广州)国际纪录片大会 Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival
A bit slack lately blogging about my favourite city, Guangzhou. Yes I do love it that much. 曹斐 Cao Fei, …
November 1, 2006 – 3:26 pm
两块一个走 – 2 kuai a zou
One afternoon in, I guess late April, I took Emile and Paul for a stroll through my favourite part of …
October 5, 2006 – 8:53 pm
china power station
Lawrence Li at Global Noise Online has been blogging regularly about the upcoming China Power Station, “A major exhibition of …
September 19, 2006 – 8:02 pm
battersea power station, guangzhou
Unlike recent high-modernist industrial travelogues in which ailing former jewels-in-the-crown of the European heavy industry age are cut up and …
August 18, 2006 – 10:08 pm
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 17, 2006 – 5:55 pm
东山 – guangzhou’s merchant suburb
The night in 2003 I spent walking around Dong Shan in the rain and wet heat was perhaps the night …
July 28, 2006 – 2:46 pm
创意广州十三行 creative canton
It was slightly unnerving, to be lying there above the swollen and turbulent Pearl River, undercutting the empty, but for …
July 27, 2006 – 2:38 pm
岭南启示录 apocalypse prd – eazy-z in g-town
Along with glad tidings of impending theatrical malfeasance from Emile yesterday, he also had a small package of love for …
July 7, 2006 – 6:57 pm
三元里 san yuan li in new york
Ou Ning of Alternative Archive, who does spend more time in airports than me, and possibly the person mostly likely …
June 28, 2006 – 6:59 pm
食色性也
食色性也。食饱思淫欲。 liao xinxin, nikita, jie paso, fangzheng, claire, emma 廖欣欣, nikita, 陈志杰, 方正, 冯嘉怡, 郑慕雅
June 21, 2006 – 10:07 pm
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – Apocalypse 1626.666
Besides spelling mistakes and irregular comprehension of names, the DVD of 岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD is nearly finished, in fact tomorrow …
June 19, 2006 – 1:07 pm
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 17, 2006 – 8:52 pm
guangzhou islands, graves, dead rivers and southern barbarians
Reading maps can describe places that have vanished, ghost inscriptions of shifting fringes, more so in places where geography itself …
May 30, 2006 – 1:09 am
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 …
May 27, 2006 – 1:23 am
famous in haizhu
Following on from the attention 岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD got in 周末画报 Modern Weekly, I spent the afternoon in Haizhu Park …
May 26, 2006 – 10:07 pm
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – more of the same…
Still more stuff is turning up in the post-show blur across the internet. On the night of the dress rehearsal, …
May 26, 2006 – 4:12 am
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 – 5:38 pm
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 – 3:42 pm
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 – 1:40 am
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 – 11:30 am
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 – 11:45 am
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 – 1:45 am
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 – 11:24 am
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 – 5:56 pm
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 – 2:54 am
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 3, 2006 – 10:46 pm
粤剧 canton opera madness
A mad day of shopping for the performance, which now has a name: 岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD. I’m not sure about …
May 2, 2006 – 10:36 pm
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 24, 2006 – 7:02 pm
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 – 8:15 pm
第三届广东现代舞周 3rd Guangdong Modern Dance Festival
Last year I was less than flattering about the dance I saw at the 第二届广东现代舞周 2nd Guangdong Modern Dance Festival, …
April 23, 2006 – 2:53 am
endless city
In one of my earlier science-fiction gorges, populated mostly by Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, occasionally Philip K. Dick, and …
March 22, 2006 – 2:47 pm
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 …
February 27, 2006 – 5:24 pm
guangzhou art and blogs
A few days ago a friend of mine who used to work at Park19 emailed me with a link to …
December 29, 2005 – 3:18 pm
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 26, 2005 – 3:00 pm
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 – 12:40 pm
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 …
September 13, 2005 – 3:34 am
抱石广州 bouldering in guangzhou
Rain didn’t stop bolting in Jiulong, and two new routes went up, overhanging and around 10d/11a. No pictures yet… but …