Reading: Zhao Ziyang – Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang
zhao ziyang – prisoner of the state
Reading: Jin Xing – Shanghai Tango (A Memoir)
jin xing – shanghai tango (a memoir)
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 …
smashing small thing together really fast
Maybe I should change my blog name to supernaut … i whore for science, I’ve been blogging so much about …
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 …
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 …
dormitory
Splendidly late blogging, but wtf. I’ve been meaning to drool here about Wang Qingsong’s Dormitory, though equally any of his …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
中秋节快乐
I’ve been lucky enough to have had a couple of Mid-Autumn Festivals in Guangzhou, and yeah it’s a bit late, …
stuff i read today
Having dragged myself out of bed at the rather late hour of 1030 and still working my way through a …
Shanghai to Mongolia via Mir
Reblogging again, this time combining a some of my disparate loves. Astronaut Shannon Lucid, like writer J. G. Ballard has …
miscellaneous rubbish for a friday
Martha Graham. Evil despot of the Modern Dance universe. Shame she didn’t die sooner. The ImpulsTanz email hidden; JavaScript is …
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 …
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 …
3030 new photography in china
A new book of contemporary art photographers from China: 3030: New Photography in China This fully illustrated survey of 30 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
storm over shaheding
A plan to catch a taxi home from rehearsal fell apart when I really couldn’t pretend I can catch taxis …
10 = marquido + itta
Before it all passes me by again and I’m still looking like an imbecile going … wuuuuh … ? this …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
endless city
In one of my earlier science-fiction gorges, populated mostly by Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, occasionally Philip K. Dick, and …
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 …
apocalypse guangzhou
Paul Emmanuel, Emile Zile and I are having a screening of a bunch of short films of ours on Sunday …
what were they doing there?
Someone was telling me 佛山 Foshan, the Fo meant fire, like in Cantonese, but duh! it actually means Buddha. Anyway, …
西门子艺术项目 – what art you doing here?
Cao Fei‘s performance/video/installation for the global Siemens Arts Programme in Foshan, What Are You Doing Here? opens today. There’s a …
a couple of anniversaries i forgot…
I’m really not one for anniversaries, and have even forgotten my birthday a couple of times, but feeling the need …
林若熹 – 行愿 lin ruoxi – meditation on travelling
When asked to translate the exhibition notes for 林若熹 Lin Ruoxi’s 行愿 exhibition, I wasn’t expecting highrise-sized banners and three …
他们在这做什么? what are they doing here?
I’m off to Hong Kong tomorrow to pick up Paul and Emile, and I’m not sure when I’m coming back, …
bird flu
I’ve had Bird Flu for the last few days, I know because I checked the symptoms on the internet, and …
金星 jin xing and shanghai dance festival
Something I’ve been meaning to write about for a bit, but I am lazy and prefer sleeping, is the 舞上海 …
陈莉莉 chen lili – the face of plastic surgery
Someone said to me, “lesbians are so 90s; trannys are where it’s at now”, and I thought, “eeeee!!! once again …
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 …
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 …
a pothole in jiulong
So I came back early. It was getting wet, which was slightly funny considering it hadn’t really dried, and trying …
pearl river bikini party
Once, hanging out down on Shamian Island, and wanting to be, I dunno, somewhere less touristy, I saw Chairman Mao …
straight outta canton
I’m sure I had a post with the same title as this some time… but well, I can’t find it, …
guangzhou art and blogs
A few days ago a friend of mine who used to work at Park19 emailed me with a link to …
fengdu’s erased horizon
Daily reading of Diacritic, and this reminded me alot – in an almost diametrically opposite way – of the photography …
p.k.14 – a tour of the public kingdom
It’s time to think about China and Guangzhou again as I’ll be in Hong Kong in two weeks and spending …
destination prd
In my daily ploughing through a couple of hundred RSS feeds, I read from Danwei, there’s a new quarterly magazine …
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 …
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 …
transylvania avenue
Cosmin, who was one of the mob of Guangzhou climbers that descended on Jiulong every weekend while I was in …
transmediale 06 talking about china
In December last year, Martijn de Waal contacted me about as part of the Chinese Mediaculture project. It was a …
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 …
Guanyin and the Kings of Hell
It’s something like perfect timing, or maybe just the endless wash of information ebbing and flowing. The Met Museum in …
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 …
nine lives – the birth of avante-garde in new china
SCALO Books have just published Beijing resident Karen Smith’s Nine Lives – The Birth of Avante-Garde in New China, and …
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 …
transsexuals in china
There was a kinda interesting article in China Daily, about a transsexual named Xiao Ying, who is about to have …
同志 tongzhi getting queer in china
It could have been the part of town I was hanging out in, or it could be that Guangzhou is …
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 …
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 …
独生一代 – single child generation
Park 19 in Guangzhou has been off the internet for a few weeks now, and when I visited the studios …
chinese mediaculture
One of the works at the 第二届广州三年展 2nd Guangzhou Triennial, the Beijing Boom Tower, has come back to me in …
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 …
a night at loft 345
Last night I went down to Loft345, which used to be Park19 (because it was number 19 whatever lane and …
a taxi ride
Going from Huanshi Dong Lu to Jiangnan Dadao, across the river and along the inner city elevated freeways that snake …
looking at art: 第二届广州三年展 2nd Guangzhou Triennial
I was going to try and find out if Park19 was still alive but only got as far as 二沙岛Er …
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 …
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 …
x-sports in china
One of the last times I went climbing at Jiulong, was the monster Hong Kong/Southern China climbers visit to Bamboo …
chinese blogger conference 2005
The 中文网志年会 Chinese Blogger Conference 2005 has been going on in Shanghai for the last couple of days. Rebecca McKinnon …
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 …
the satanic orgy of meat
I never went to the real animal markets in Guangzhou. I arrived in the city as a vegetarian, but after …
人妖 or 变性 … how about 变性人妖
While I was trawling through the internet, scraping up stuff on Miss International Queen 2005 I found a longish entry …
daily blog reading
I went through my blog bookmarks a couple of days ago, which now number several folders with 15 or more …
冬蔭功 tom yum goong meet jin xing
As usual I’m totally behind the times. I’m not sure how long ago it was released, but Prachya Pinkaew, director …
dongxi wants stuff
I got an email a couple of days ago from the editors of the about to be published dongxi magazine. …
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 …
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. …
shanghai does contemporary art
Contemporary art in China is really mostly a scene in Beijing around 798 Factory, despite other cities having something going …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
australia-china council funds me … again
Well, the title says it all. Here in autumnal Zürich I got an email this evening from the wonderful Australia-China …
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 …
all of china at the kennedy centre
There’s a fairly huge mega-company type cultural celebration of China going on at the moment at both the Kennedy Centre …
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 …
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 …
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 …
a jew in china is not a parsimonious monkey
Some uppity group called with a bad name, Peacetime Foundation of Taiwan have decided the world would be a better …
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 …
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 …
《迷狂之梦天》 journey of the unrestrained
For annyone in or near Guangzhou this weekend, the Guangdong Modern Dance Company is performing in the company Small Theatre …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
crazy for digital
The current state of film in China and Hong Kong, mostly triad good-cop/bad-cop or period piece fantastical martial arts sewerage …
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 …
pig-fucking at the chenjiatuo art farm
There’s something I like about Wim Delvoye’s tattooed pigs, and also something I find craven and a transparent ploy for …
zeroballet bitches extermination
After much pissing around, I thought it was time to dump some more narrow-band choking content on the dance side …
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 …
China’s indie doco scene
I missed the 2nd 同性恋电影节 Beijing International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival a couple of months ago, but City Weekend …
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 …
香平麗 our love – drag queen underworld
Not that I have much of a focus on China at the moment, but I know lots of you come …
slumming it in vevey
The most skanky flight I have ever had in my life was on the weekend, Hong Kong to Bangkok, to …
bitches in the press
Bitches got a couple of mentions in the press including one review, which I dunno if they said anything good, …
literature commune chicken
I went to Park19 today to say goodbye to everyone until next time I stumble through Guangzhou. I also made …
was it something i said?
I have no access to my email at the moment, and erratic access to my websites. Possibly I did something …
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 …
sixth generation film
Wang Xiaoshuai’s Beijing Bicycle was a bit of an underground hit a couple of years ago – not that I …
splash life
Maybe it was last year, or very early this year, when we sat around the outside table at Sleepywood, mesmerised …
eco-tourism in guangdong
I’m an avid map-reader. I’ll spend hours pouring over all kinds of maps looking for something, nothing. Lately it’s been …
burn-out
extermination the film was awesome. Expect video on my website sometime soon, and photos here even sooner. Went to Hong …
extermination at park19
Last year when extermination got performed, we also made a film. It’s been lurking, several rolls of 16mm, slowly going …
bitches rocks hard
It went so well. bitches rocked out. Even the florescent lights coming on half way through didn’t shake it. An …
罗岗 Luogang bouldering
I know everyone wants to dirt on the show last night, but bugger that. I’m going climbing. So, after a …
bitches in rehearsal
Around lunchtime while waiting for the dirt samples to arrive, when the humidity and heat was excerable, I was asked, …
bitches part III
It’s production week, or whatever else it can be called, so I’m going to be vanishing into production week limbo …
bitches part II
Bitches is a week off and I should really be getting the costumes today, but mainland China has this problem… …
mao the destroyer
There is always something despicable about tourists who collect Mao memorabilia or wear Great Helmsman badges. For me it is …
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, …
bikes are bad
When I first arrived in Guangzhou, I was expecting to see more bicycles. I wasn’t too surprised by their relative …
babes in beijing
In 1989, Rachel DeWoskin arrived in Beijing fresh from university to work for an American P.R. firm. Two months later …
yingde – the next jiulong
It was the last trip before the humidity rotted even out bones, and the vampire mosquitos were swarming, lecherous and …
bitches
I started rehearsals on Monday for the reason why Australia China Council gave me money and why I’m able to …
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 …
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 …
Yoga in Guangzhou
For residents of Guangzhou who really miss that yoga class you’d go to in the evening or on the weekend, …
pixeldirt
Justine Poplin makes really cool performance art and installations, and I’ve known her longer than anyone in Australia, and see …
jiulong super-crag
Jiulong turned into a bit of a tourist town this weekend. Three carloads of climbers plus a few others ate …
climb, you pathetic little human
I’m off tomorrow morning for a couple of days up at Jiulong again. It’s the big trip. Nine days of …
Stop Motion
I arrived back in perfect time for the start of the 第二届广东现代舞 – 2nd Guangdong Modern Dance Festival, two weeks …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Joseph Rock rises again
Reading the Green Guide at Orange yesterday, the last name I expected to see getting airtime on SBS this week …
cock rock
In an effort to make everyone see what an awesome place Guangdong province is to go climbing in, it looks …
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 …
regeneration
Another exhibition, pretty similar to the Stanford Show below is on at Otis College of Art + Design’s Ben Maltz …
political hysteria in chinese art
One of the many articles on Chinese art I missed during my amputation from the internet in February came from …
chinese whispers in adelaide
Amanda Phillips and me are always in the same place, but never at the same time. She was in Zurich …
they rule
Just in case you had any illusions about the benevolence of the Chinese communist party, who’ve shared the love three …
COSPlayers – cao fei in beijing
Guangzhou artist Cao Fei has opened her exhibition at Courtyard Gallery in Beijing. Urban teenage superhero video COSPlayers is being …
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?” …
大声展 get it louder
大声展 get it louder opens in Shenzhen at the end of next month before moving to Shanghai and Beijing. Over …
virtually richard3
Brisbane-based expressions dance company is about to head off to Guangzhou to join a bunch of other dance companies from …
travelling again
I’ve been travelling most of the week, leaving Guangzhou on Tuesday and heading to Melbourne for the next six weeks. …
another day at jiulong
We set off for Jiulong with the same driver and his white car with the dropped shocks around seven along …
干花乐队 dead flowers at park19
Having blown my remaining change of DVDs again, including weird old documentaries on the history of Hong Kong filmmaking, I …
the new park-19
I went back to the new Park-19 today in daylight surrounded by the craziness of the Nantai markets. I’m looking …
Jiulong – you ain’t in Hong Kong anymore
A while ago, I saw some photos of a place just north of Guangzhou that looked so like Yangshou, the …
Australia China Council funds me
Just when I was thinking of giving it all up, getting a nice easy job (say maybe a showgirl in …
19-T somewhere south of the river
Besides the main Park-19 where all the artists have studios, there’s another one, a bit further west of the University …
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 …
park 19, 19-T and shanshui records
This Friday night at Park 19, Shanshui Records and a bunch of others have the Guangzhou part of their tour. …
park 19 where it’s all at
I went to Park 19 yesterday, the artists studio space on the south side o the river near Xiaogang Park. …
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 …
2005广州国际摄影双年展“城市·重视” 2005 Guangzhou Photo Biennale
The 2005 Guangzhou Photo Biennale opened at the 广东美术馆 Guangdong Museum of Modern Art in mid-January and is running until …
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 …
gangstalean and beijing bookworm
So I go away for a couple of weeks, and look at all these new websites. Bloody hell, I’m glad …
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 …
guangdong #1
The centre of the manufacturing universe, Guangdong Provence now has the largest population in China. Bigger than most countries even …
more chinese sci-fi
Two new Chinese science-fiction magazines have appeared on the market in China. As all the names have ‘fantasy’ and ‘science …
qing yuan, guangdong’s yangshuo
When I first knew I was going to China, my first thought was, “Damn I need to find where to …
广东现代舞团 – Guangdong Modern Dance Company Performs
This weekend, the amazing 广东现代舞团 – Guangdong Modern Dance Company will present a season of new short works by the …
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: …
technorati tags and blog aggregators
(Geek warning, coding follows) T-Salon had a post on Technorati and their new blog aggregators, which are based around tags …
stop beating the animals
$ sinobling $ returns from the zoo, and doesn’t have much good to say. The attitudes of so many Chinese …
seth’s interactions
Late last year, former China reporter Seth Faison, who had been in the country on and off since the early …
化境神似 from zhwj
I can’t remember what I was reading which had the link to this, but after being stunned by In the …
damming tiger leaping gorge
Not content with trashing 600 kilometers of the Three Gorges and making a formerly spectacular terrain resemble little more than …
asian blog awards
The results are in for the 2004 Asian Blog Awards. Go over and check it out, and see some new …
plastic chinese stools and other great works of art
China Underground regularly has good stuff on art in China, and lately they’ve been adding some video-art, including Guang Yang’s …
in the footsteps of joseph rock
There are a whole pageload of new blogs over at sinosplice china blog list, but only in only one is …
shen wei at sydney opera house
The Sydney Festival opens in a couple of weeks, premiering Kate Champion’s Already Elsewhere and Shen Wei Dance Arts, the …
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 …
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 …
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 …
人造美女 – miss artificial beauty
The first beauty competition in China for people who had plastic surgery, 人造美女, is over, and the winner is Feng …
第三现场 – 第二届新年国际音乐节 live home 3
After a couple of months of silence and a website announcing the days of 第三现场 Live Home 3 were over, …
大山子艺术区 on wiki
Factory 798 in Beijing was the site of the Dashanzi International Art Festival earlier this year, and is one of …
plastic surgery disasters
Actually I’m a bit of a fan of the whole thing, in a post-modern kind of way, especially after finding …
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 …
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 …
antonioni in china
Having made some of the most striking films of the new wave in L’Avventura, then setting The Yardbirds on fire …
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 …
making art in china
What’s it like to be a foreign artist in residence in China? Last night, three of us from the Taipei …
UBU and TRSIMF
One festival finishes, another begins. Last night was the final of three ear-splitting nights of some of the best rock …
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 …
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 …
‘second-tier city’ culture
Chongqing recently expanded its boundaries to become the largest municipality in the world with a population of some 20 million …
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. …
colonel jin xing
The Shanghai Foreign Correspondents Club had a screening of Colonel Jin Xing – a unique destiny last night. Jin Xing, …
shanghai art arse licking
The Guardian has been running a Special Report on China for the last couple of weeks, which should be compulsory …
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 …
qj studios – 没大没小 Mei Da Mei Xiao
Just before I left Guangzhou, I had a couple of conversations about the art scene in the city, which seems …
architecture in beijing
The first architecture Biennial Beijing 2004 has just started in the capital, and Stefano Mirti, Simone Muscolino and Luca Poncellini …
down at the xinghai concert hall
Friday. My last day in Guangzhou. Two weeks of teaching dance at the Guangdong Modern Dance Company School, Yoga at …
东山小区 dong shan town
Around 5pm it’s impossible to get a taxi anywhere in town, and even if you do, it moves so slow …
this one’s for you, JD
When I first came to Guangzhou, I was introduced by the fearsome culinary vultures of the Symphony Orchestra to about …
liwan hutong
China is keeping me busy. I’m teaching contemporary dance at the Guangdong modern Dance Company School Yes, they have a …
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 …
i hope someday you will join
The 迷笛现代音乐节 Midi Music Festival is on again in Beijing until today, which is probably the best festival in China …
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 …
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 …
twlight of the door gods
Watch any Chinese martial arts movie and somewhere there will always be a set of double doors with fearsome, demonic …
the watchtowers of 开平碉楼 kaiping diaolou
News Guangdong reports on the Kaiping Watchtowers, diaolou 碉樓, which have come under State protection for their architecture and historic …
taikang art street
With the demolition or threatened demolition of artist’s villages and communities in Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shanghai as the glacial mental …
金星 上海探戈 jin xing – shanghai tango
Shanghai choreographer and superstar 金星 Jin Xing’s dance performance 上海探戈 Shanghai Tango is being performed in Shanghai next weekend. The …
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 …
prostitution in china
Andrés Gentry has written one of the most in-depth and compassionate pieces on prostitution in China I have ever read. …
hurricane frances and storms in sichuan
It’s really cool to have a hurricane with your name on it, even if it has been ‘down-graded’ to a …
北京舞蹈学院 Beijing Dance Academy 50th anniversary
The 北京舞蹈学院 Beijing Dance Academy will be celebrating its 50th Anniversary next week, which has attracted little attention, but if …
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 …
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 …
pollution in China
The Economist published a fairly detailed article on the state of the environment in China, the levels of continuing degradation …
北京娃娃 Beijing Doll
Early this year, Asian Times wrote a long article on lingei, the Chinese equivalent of Gen-X. Chun Shu, the author …
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 …
i like my noise noisy
In Guangzhou this Saturday, a group of noise-makers from across the city will be shaking the rotten concrete out of …
cultural revisionism
In a piece of historical revisionism that marks Revolutionary Worker as the inbred cousin of David Irving, the ‘magazine’ offers …
xanadu at the nla
Canberra’s National Library of Australia has just opened an exhibition of historical images from China, Xanadu – Encounters with China …
chinese sci-fi and fantasy
zhwj 中国幻想文学基地 is the one-stop shop for anything to do with Science-Fiction (科幻 kehuan) and Fantasy (奇幻 qihuan) coming out …
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 …
green card
Something I could really have done with last time I was in China to avoid the regular visits to the …
baiyun airport opens
The new 白云飞机场 Baiyun International Airport opened recently, which I’m looking forward to flying in to and schlepping around in …
asian labour news
Asian Labour News is a source of labour issues in China and Southern Asia which is daily read for me, …
southern metropolis daily
What happened in Guangzhou when a graphic design student got arrested by the police for not having a temporary residence …
china’s rural divide
The New York Times is running a series of articles, The Great Divide, on the widening gap between the affluent …
comrades at trainspotting
This weekend at trainspotting in Beijing, there’s a mini-festival of queer films from China. If the sight of two men …
北京现代舞团 beijing modern dance company – 《逆光》- rear light
北京现代舞团 – beijing modern dance company, one of the three or four contemporary dance companies in mainland China is getting …
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 …
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 …
chinese sci-fi and fantasy
Having just ripped through all of Iain M. Bank’s Culture books, and run out of stuff to read, I’ve been …
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 …
qian fuchang and the text-message novel
The BBC News and every second news media are reporting about Chinese author Qian Fuchang, who has written a novel …
doing nothing anywhere
Vitamin Creative Space in Guangzhou recently had a project do nothing anywhere at the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in …
china and taiwan
An excellent article appeared over at Living in China, on why China won’t bomb the crap out of Taiwan despite …
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 …
symphonies in asia
Time Asia writes on the rise of Symphony Orchestras and western classical music in China and Asia, with the appointment …
colour pollution
Hanging out on Er Sha Dao in the evening, the new apartment blocks on both sides of the river which …
崔子恩 《丑角登场》 Cui Zi’en – Enter The Clowns
Something I wish I’d known about last time I was in China are the films of Cui Zi’en. There is …
humanism in china
Humanism in China, the photographic exhibition which started at the Guangzhou Museum of Art in December 2003, and travelled to …
1個歧視 – A Discrimination
Live Home 3 has an exhibition 1個歧視 – A Discrimination on at the moment, with a number of local artists …
shanghai diaspora
A number of attempts to save the hutong in big cities from noddy-town toilet architecture developments, and to preserve something …
climbing in beijing
The magazine that got me out of my apartment and finding Guangzhou has a cover story on the one thing …
films at 798 factories
798 Factories, the gallery/bookshop/bar scene in Beijing in a glorious old East German high-modernist arms factory screened two films last …
zhang dali – chinese offspring
One thing missing in China is the pervasive graffiti of tags, pieces, hip-hop art which you can see in almost …
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 …
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 …
where are all the good looking chinese girls?
The Straits Times has a bunch of filler between ads on the wild world of beauty contests that are rampant …
Guangdong Symphony Orchestra in Sydney
The Guangdong Symphony Orchestra blew into town on Thursday for a one-nighter at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall performing …
cui jian – the father of chinese rock n roll
asia pacific arts has an interview with Cui Jian, the ‘father of Chinese rock n roll’, who started out playing …
小谷围 Xiaoguwei artist village demolished
The 小谷围 Xiaoguwei artist village in Guangzhou, about 17 kilometers from the city centre is being demolished. The 165 villas …
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 …
rive droite
Something has been happening in Guangzhou in the last year, which always seems like the poor second child to Beijing …
between past and future
The massive 10 year retrospective Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China has just opened in New …
new media arts in Beijing
The international New Media Arts Exhibition Millenium Dialogue is running in Beijing at the moment, with students and lecturers from …
Baiyun airport
I like a good airport, especially because I don’t have to good fortune to belong to any airport club where …
Yin Xiuzhen – Portable Cities
Making the most of airports, Beijing artist Yin Xiezhen is exhibiting two installations at the Sydney Biennale, Portable Cities and …
Wang Qingsong makes art
Opening in a couple of days on June 11 is Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, …
too many buildings not enough subways
There’s nothing like hanging out along the Pearl River at night, whether it’s down near Shamian Island or on Er …
06-04
I wasn’t going to blog about this at all, especially because so many other people have done so and are …
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 …
第三现场 3 Live Home – Rhythm Construction
Things are going wild at 第三现场 3 Live Home this month. This week is the first hip-hop week in Guangzhou, …
onedotzero in Beijing + Shanghai
China Daily has a piece on onedotzero the festival of digital film making its way to Beijing and Shanghai in …
广东实验现代舞团 Guangdong Modern Dance Company at Venice Biennale
The 广东实验现代舞团 Guangdong Modern Dance Company will be performing for the first time in Venice this month at la biennale …
Time of Disasters
Sick of watching Hollywood beat the crap out of New York in every disaster movie from ,Towering Inferno to The …
Chinese as it is spoke
Following hard on the heels of French banning ‘le weekend’ and Quebec’s plans for air-traffic controllers to speak the international …
beauty pageant cries “just say no”
110 000 kuai and plenty of knife work wasn’t enough to buy Yang Yuan a place in the Beijing leg …
广州声纳 sounding guangzhou
The 广东要是现代无团 Guangdong Modern Dance Company is host this weekend to Sounding Guangzhou, International Electronic Art Symposium. The symposium is …
Box of Changes
Architect Peter Eisenman took part in a competition recently to design a new museum and public square in the heart …
Chinese Mountaineering Team on K2
The climbing season on K2 has kicked off, with 54 expeditions attempting to summit the mountain made famous by prominent …
宋庄画家村画廊 10 years of Songzhuang Artist Village Gallery
Ten years ago Renzhuang village, a spit from the center of Beijing in the Tongzhou district, became the home of …
iTunes loves China
Apple has done a deal with Founder one of the largest suppliers of PCs in China to have their computers …
Smells like teen spirit
One day there’s too many queer westerners causing television presenters to dye their hair unnatural colours, expose too much flesh …
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 …
798 Factories – great article shame about the title
The 大山字 Dashanzi Arts Festival at 798 Factories made the news in Australia today, and not just in buried in …
798 Factories books
The 798 Factories Dashanzi Arts Festival is going on at the moment, and for those of us who can’t make …
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 …
Topologies of the Instant – n+n corsino
N+N Corsino are two French choreographers from Marseille. or one choreographer and one mathematician, who don’t make dance in theatres, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Zhang Lin again
Zhang Lin, got married during the May Day holiday. Nothing unusual about that, except she used to be a guy …
BMX Bandits
The cover story of this month’s That’s Guangzhou is devoted to bikes, BMX and the emerging scene in Guangzhou of …
Wenders, Xue, Laib at 广东美术馆 GDMoA
While Beijing has 大山子艺术节 Dashanzi Yishu Jie – Dashanzi Art Festival at 798 Group Factories, Guangzhou is also going art-crazy …
Architecture in Beijing
The future of Beijing architecture is roads, motorways, expressways, and making more and bigger urban streets. Xinhuanet wrote about the …
首届北京国际新媒体艺术展暨研讨会 – First Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition and Symposium
Tsinghua University in Beijing, together with ZKM | Centre for Art and Media from Germany, and V2_ from Nederlands will …
同志 tongzhi queers in China
The fifth 同志 Tongzhi conference has just wrapped up in Hong Kong, where thanks to easing of border restrictions many …
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 …
大山子艺术节 Dashanzi Yishu Jie – Dashanzi Art Festival at 798 Group Factories
Beijing is becoming the home of avant-garde art in China according to several newspapers which ran the article on 798 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
博客 boke the Chinese blog revolution
Day two of China’s Digital Future covered a huge amount of topics, all of which are again reviewed in brief …
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 …
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, …
China’s Digital Future
UC Berkeley is running a conference at the moment on China’s Digital Future Advancing The Understanding of China’s Information Revolution. …
小谷围 Xiaoguwei: Development 1 Art 0
The 小谷围 Xiaoguwei artist village in Southern Guangzhou, home of the Lingnan School of painting where almost 200 artists, architects, …
ID Sniper debuts at China Police weapons fair
In June 2002, Jacob S. Boeskov, the CEO of Empire North, a young Danish Hi-Tech weapons company travelled to Beijing …
The Other Path – Landscape Initiatives project
Geri Wittig presented an overview of the C5 Landscape Initiative project at Beijing’s China Central Academy of Fine Arts yesterday. …
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 …
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 …
A big stinking shithole
Last xinnian, I travelled to Sichuan with the intention of going up to Jiuzhaigou for a couple of weeks. New …
The ‘new’ Silk Route
A new treaty has been signed by 23 nations at a UN meeting to create multiple landlinks between Khabarovsk and …
Zhang Lin gets married
Sometimes China really manages to get it right, like 10 years ahead of the rest of the world. Not only …
Unemployed given nice uniforms
Xinhua and Channel News Asia reported a White Paper has been released today on the situation of the 161 million …
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 …
Between Past and Future
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China is a retrospective of 10 years of contemporary video and …
SARS is back
Last year we were on the train from Wuhan to Guangzhou when we got a barrage of text messages warning …
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 …
Open Gesture – Guangdong Museum of Art
Following on from the Post Generation and New Century exhibitions of contemporary Chinese artists, 广东美术馆 Guangdong Museum of Art new …
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 …
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, …
别 爱 人 bie ai ren – Photos
广东实验现代舞团 Guangdong Shiyan Xiandai Wu Tuan – Guangdong Modern Dance Company choreographer 龙云娜 Long Yunna has sent me photos of …
Reefer Madness in China
Like every western country, the youth of China are getting turned on to the pleasure of getting wasted; dropping into …
Tiananmen artists in Australia
Fifteen years ago today, the events that resulted in the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing began. The most visual display …
别 爱 人 bie ai ren – 3 human basics
别爱人 bie ai ren is the new contemporary dance work by the internationally renowned Guangzhou-based Guangdong Modern Dance Company. Bie …
nobody moves and nobody gets hurt
[edit] I don’t really like this entry, but the authenticist in me can’t bring myself to re-write it… The original …