The last of my first stack of books for 2012, and one that has been on my list for a …
January 19, 2012 – 7:42 pm
Reading: Paul A. Van Dyke — The Canton Trade: Life and Enterprise on the China Coast, 1700-1845
Continuing my return to reading China, as with my focus on women in the history of China, so too is …
September 23, 2011 – 2:49 pm
Reading: Julia Lovell – The Opium War
Canton. The idea is romantic, and unavoidably one of Orientalism. Still, I lived there on and off for a few …
May 17, 2011 – 6:13 pm
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 …
May 6, 2010 – 7:41 am
reading: Leslie T. Chang – Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
Leslie T. Chang – Factory Girls
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 …
January 11, 2007 – 11:20 pm
我不知道我是什么性别
Happy reading for me this afternoon from Mary Ann in Shenzhen, who writes one of the best blogs coming out …
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 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 28, 2006 – 6:15 pm
等待戈多 waiting for godot
I really need a category for performance, because sticking Samuel Beckett under ‘dance’ is just a bit weird, not withstanding …
August 27, 2006 – 4:13 pm
waiting for fat bird
One of the most enjoyable blogs to emerge from Guangdong Province, and one of my favourites for being an art-performance-archaeological-theoretical …
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 …
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 – 1:53 pm
shenzhen beautiful transsexual photo studio
Having been tardy in writing about anything that attracts the most readers, and a bit of a follow-on from a …
May 28, 2006 – 10:50 pm
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. …
March 18, 2006 – 9:15 pm
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 …
February 18, 2006 – 1:36 pm
destination prd
In my daily ploughing through a couple of hundred RSS feeds, I read from Danwei, there’s a new quarterly magazine …
February 17, 2006 – 2:20 pm
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 …
January 5, 2006 – 7:02 pm
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 …
December 31, 2005 – 12:15 pm
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 …
October 27, 2005 – 3:57 pm
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. …
October 11, 2005 – 3:01 am
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 …
October 9, 2005 – 1:00 am
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 …
October 2, 2005 – 1:04 am
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 …
September 21, 2005 – 1:17 am
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 …
September 4, 2005 – 1:39 am
《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 …
September 2, 2005 – 5:35 am
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 …
June 13, 2005 – 7:16 pm
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 …
June 5, 2005 – 9:42 pm
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 …
May 24, 2005 – 1:57 pm
yingde – the next jiulong
It was the last trip before the humidity rotted even out bones, and the vampire mosquitos were swarming, lecherous and …
May 16, 2005 – 1:34 pm
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 …
May 13, 2005 – 10:03 pm
jiulong again
I’m off climbing again in sunny Jiulong again tomorrow for the weekend. Expect lots of dirty photos of drills going …
May 7, 2005 – 8:36 pm
Yoga in Guangzhou
For residents of Guangzhou who really miss that yoga class you’d go to in the evening or on the weekend, …
May 4, 2005 – 2:47 pm
jiulong super-crag
Jiulong turned into a bit of a tourist town this weekend. Three carloads of climbers plus a few others ate …
April 30, 2005 – 5:53 pm
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 …
March 30, 2005 – 10:48 am
cock rock
In an effort to make everyone see what an awesome place Guangdong province is to go climbing in, it looks …
March 7, 2005 – 12:45 pm
another day at jiulong
We set off for Jiulong with the same driver and his white car with the dropped shocks around seven along …
March 1, 2005 – 2:19 pm
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 …
September 23, 2004 – 10:37 pm
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 …
July 10, 2004 – 3:49 pm
symphonies in asia
Time Asia writes on the rise of Symphony Orchestras and western classical music in China and Asia, with the appointment …
June 18, 2004 – 2:26 pm
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 …
April 8, 2004 – 2:06 pm
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 …