“Reading: … ” Book of the Year 2012 (Non-Fiction): Annemarie Schwarzenbach – All the Roads are Open: The Afghan Journey (trans. Isabel Fargo Cole)
Annemarie Schwarzenbach – All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey
Tag Archives: Journalism
Reading: Paul French – Through the Looking Glass, China’s Foreign Journalists from Opium Wars to Mao
It took a while to arrive … I’m not even sure now what prompted me to decide I wanted to read this, given it was published in 2009, and I tend to be on a “Want now! Why must I … Continue reading
A Life Spent Searching – the Travels and Writing of Annemarie Schwarzenbach
It’s mainly the reason why every October I write about all the books I’ve read in the last year, that some remain in my thoughts. Isabel Cole’s translation of Annamarie Schwarzenbach’s All Roads are Open is one of these, as well … Continue reading
Global Voices Summit – Budapest
Some of my favourite and also most inspiring bloggers, writers, wonderful computer and internet people are all in Budapest for the Global Voices Summit. In no particular order, Ethan Zuckerman, Rebecca Mackinnon, John Kennedy (alway Feng37 to me), Isaac Mao, … Continue reading
Reading: Rosanne Klass – Land of the High Flags: Afghanistan When the Going Was Good
rosanne klass – land of the high flags
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 was the one who said to him, “spam me with g-town stuff I might wanna blog”, while wistfully nostalgia-ising over … Continue reading
friday atheist re-blogging
Being the day when a carpenter who has fantastically scant evidence for ever having existed in the first place was hung up on the objects of his trade and encouraged to die, I thought I start my erratic wasting a … Continue reading
don’t bomb us – al jazeera goes blog
Somehow, I think through one of the feeds I subscribe to, I stumbled upon what is one of the best blogs and daily reads. Don’t Bomb Us – A blog by Al Jazeera Staffers, the title says it all. would … Continue reading
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 is not really something to celebrate). The first is my daily favourite, and in my opinion one of the very … Continue reading
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 months in Taiwan, outside winter had taken on the consistency of cold, mashed peas and across the canal each evening … Continue reading