Reading: Gail Hershatter — The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past

This is the book I was so intimidated by I went off and read Charles Stross and Harry Potter for …

Reading: Feng Jicai – Voices from the Whirlwind

feng jicai – voices from the whirlwind

lazy sunday cooking eating blogging …

A late night swirling Pernod with Bonnie at Orange and an early trip to the shops for Sunday fruit, now …

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 …

antonioni in china

Having made some of the most striking films of the new wave in L’Avventura, then setting The Yardbirds on fire …

cultural revisionism

In a piece of historical revisionism that marks Revolutionary Worker as the inbred cousin of David Irving, the ‘magazine’ offers …

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 …

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, …

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