frances without laptop

Avoiding bringing home my laptop means time for fun things like staring at walls, lying in bed, rolling over, looking …

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. …

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 …

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 …

pollution in China

The Economist published a fairly detailed article on the state of the environment in China, the levels of continuing degradation …

china’s rural divide

The New York Times is running a series of articles, The Great Divide, on the widening gap between the affluent …

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 …

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