owen lattimore – inner asian frontiers of china
Surabaya, Indonesia Climbing Gym Job Opening
Those of you who have bothered to read supernaut for at least a few years (oh I have pity for …
Reading: Frank Dikötter – Mao’s Great Famine
frank dikötter – mao’s great famine
Burka Bondage
The past couple of months Dasniya has been rehearsing with Helena Waldmann, in a piece she helped with last year …
Reading: Edward Allworth (ed.) – Central Asia – 120 Years of Russian Rule
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Reading: James R. Brandon – Theatre in Southeast Asia
james r. brandon – theatre in southeast asia
Daniel Jaber in Kuala Lumpur
Daniel has been on an AsiaLink Performing Arts Residency in Malaysia for the last some months. Snakes? Yes! He has …
Reading… a 3rd anniversary
Regarding the two-score books of the last year, it is surprising which of the non-fiction – a term I use …
(Some) Stuff I Read This Week
For some reason I decided to start using Twitter again — I suspect iPhone — and without any clear purpose …
Reading: Matthew T. Kapstein – The Tibetans
matthew t. kapstein – the tibetans
Reading: Christopher I Beckwith – The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia
christopher i. beckwith – the tibetan empire in central asia
Reading: James A. Millward – Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang
james a. millward – eurasian crossroads
reading: frank dikotter – the age of openness: china before mao
frank dikotter – the age of openness: china before mao
readin: david hinton: chuang tzu – the inner chapters
david hinton: chuang tzu – the inner chapters
reading: Leslie T. Chang – Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
Leslie T. Chang – Factory Girls
Kirschblütenfest in den Asiatischen Gärten
Journeying far east to Erholungspark Marzhan and the Gärten der Welt for the Cherry Blossom Festival. Much apartment-stack architecture reminding …
reading: g. whitney azoy – buzkashi – game and power in afghanistan
g. whitney azoy – buzkashi
reading: christopher i. beckwith – empires of the silk road
christopher i. beckwith – empires of the silk road
Reading: Iris Chang – The Rape of Nanking
iris chang – the rape of nanking
seile
I bought some rope today. From Fesseltrieb in far east Sonnenallee, biking through a first biting day of winter, clear …
Reading… a 2nd anniversary
My reading the last year has not been of either the volume, nor the breadth of the previous, in no …
bondage basics
More from Dasniya, who shall be teaching a two day workshop in Shibari in November. Certainly one of the highlights …
Konstruierte Fantasien / The Construction of Fantasy
From Dasniya, and what I’ve been doing since March this year, being tied, suspended, flying, tying others, playing, something like …
sorayama nawa shibari
Last night with the wonderful Katrin, I was introduced to an artist I’d not thought upon for years, and likely …
reading: j.g. ballard – empire of the sun
j.g. ballard – empire of the sun
osada steve
A couple of days before I began my current day job, a Thursday evening, having done some fast coding, I …
Protected: miscellaneous tranny stuff … coz we rule
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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 …
miss international queen 2006
I’ve been meaning to blog about this for a few days but I am lazy and self-centred. So. Finally I …
amazing philippine beauties 2006
Actually I know why you mostly come here and it has nothing to do with having a social conscience. You’re …
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 …
asian blog awards 2006
I have no idea who nominated me for the Asian Blog Awards 2006, but I’m quite flattered; and quite amused …
every transsexual is first at something
Once being first was easy, when everything hadn’t been done, lately, first is the prefix on a long chain of …
miss tiffany’s universe 2006
It’s that time of the year again, and in wishing to have some kind of fair competition, I neglected to …
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” …
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 …
fengdu’s erased horizon
Daily reading of Diacritic, and this reminded me alot – in an almost diametrically opposite way – of the photography …
nam june paik
A couple of years ago, my film-maker pirate friend Paul showed me a nth-copy video of the most trippy dance …
mimi marks and stupid people
About a month ago, Mimi Marks won the Miss International Queen 2005 beauty pageant for transsexuals in Thailand, which I …
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 …
miss international queen 2005
Tiffany’s second annual beauty pageant for transsexuals Miss International Queen 2005 was held in the glowing centre of the she-male …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
harisu is a hot issue
She didn’t quite have the same effect in Cherry Blossoms as Buck and Allanah do in Allanah Starr’s Big Boob …
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 …
southern china + guangzhou rock climbing
I guess Guangzhou mustn’t be that skanky wet furnace of mugginess and hysteria inducing heat anymore, though it’s hard to …
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 …
miss waria indonesia 2005
Probably because it happened in late June when I was mostly living in airport lounges I missed the whole Miss …
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 …
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 …
slumming it in vevey
The most skanky flight I have ever had in my life was on the weekend, Hong Kong to Bangkok, to …
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 …
dance sucker dance
It’s the start of summer, so that means every town and its dog has a dance festival for the next …
yingde – the next jiulong
It was the last trip before the humidity rotted even out bones, and the vampire mosquitos were swarming, lecherous and …
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 …
jiulong again
I’m off climbing again in sunny Jiulong again tomorrow for the weekend. Expect lots of dirty photos of drills going …
Miss Tiffany Universe 2005
Miss Tiffany 2005 was crowned in Pattaya, Thailand a couple of days ago. Sometimes Asia can be years ahead of …
Cunnilingus in North Korea
The empyre mailing list went spastic in the last couple of days with the pornographically titled Cunnilingus in North Korea. …
travelling again
I leave for Hong Kong and Guangzhou tomorrow for a couple of months making horrible art before heading over to …
2005 Asia Young Choreography Projects
The World Dance Alliance is currently seeking is currently seeking choreographers from across the Asian region for the annual choreographic …
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. …
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 …
tropical malady
More good queer and just strange films coming out of Thailand. This month, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s most recent film Sud Pralad …
UAE Sharjah International Biennale 7
The UAE Sharjah International Biennale 7 opens in a couple of weeks in Sharjah Art Museum and the nearby Heritage …
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?” …
jun nyugen-hatsushiba
Vietnam-based artist Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba is exhibiting video works and an installation at Malmö Konsthall in Sweden from March 5th. Historical …
blast theory tokyo – can you see me now?
British augmented-reality performance artists Blast Theory were in Japan last week for six days ofCan You See Me Now? on …
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 …
harisu at the berlin film festival
The Hong Kong Gay and Lesbian Film Festival came and went last month and I didn’t even notice. oops. But …
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 …
i love Italia
From one of the mailing lists I’m on, undo.net comes Le Invasioni Barbariche, curated by Pier Luigi Tazzi at Galleria …
asian blog awards
The results are in for the 2004 Asian Blog Awards. Go over and check it out, and see some new …
art village @ taiwan
Before I came to Taiwan and the Taipei Artist Village, I had a pretty slim idea about what was going …
vote for me!!!
This is your last chance to vote for me in the Asian Blog Awards, so go on do something worthwhile …
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 …
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 …
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 …
miss tiffany singapore
Miss Tiffany has been crowned for the first time in Singapore. In an imitation of the famous Thailand beauty pageant …
asian horror in hollywood
When it comes to really disturbing horror films, with the exception of visceral nightmares like The Shining and The Exorcist, …
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 …
seni in singapore
SENI 2004, Singapore’s international visual arts festival opens at the end of the month, and will be a good excuse …
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 …
arabesque
Performing contemporary dance on the plains of Mongolia, with the audience coming to watch with their yurts, and slaughtering a …
special toilets
Once again Thailand leads the world in human rights. The 1500 student Chiang Mai Technology College has opened a separate …
korean queer culture festival
The 2004 Korea Queer Culture Festival was held in Seoul last month, along with the queer film festival, which received …
asian traffic
The Asian Traffic exhibition and conference has just opened at the Asia-Australia Arts Centre in Sydney, a four-month show exploring …
we love harisu
With Miriam giving Big Brother something to talk about before Merlin Luck taped his mouth shut in protest over imprisoned …
台北國際藝術村 – Esthetics of Migration
Almost three years ago on a plot of land vacated by the Mass Rapid Transit authorities the 台北國際藝術村 Taipei Artists’ …
Gozu and Casshein
Two films which are doing the rounds at the moment, Gozu by Ichi The Killer director Takashi Miike, and Casshern …
Jumping Frames
Jumping Frames is the collaboration between Hong kong’s City Contemporary Dance Company and videotage, aiming to bring together people from …