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2010 Galleries:~ Tianjin, Beijing & Henan
2008 Galleries:~ Tianjin & Beijing
2007 Galleries:~ Tianjin, Beijing, Chiangmai & Taipei
2006 Galleries:~ Taipei, Hong Kong & Vancouver
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Conversations
Making our neighbourhood more “civilized” (
2)
Paul: "
We just returned from Inner Mongolia, where we saw many..."
Carl: "
This seems to be the norm, someone comes in and tells..."
A banquet, baijiu & Bon Jovi (my first office party in China) (
3)
Lep: "
I was warned – in time – that many KTV..."
Metaphors for Tianjin Traffic (
7)
Lep: "
I have seen the crumpled bike underneath a car. It is..."
Carl: "
These are all so very true, I’ve learned to give..."
NPR series: “New Believers – a religious revolution in China” (
2)
Dr Ross Grainger: "
As someone who has been angaged in Buddhist..."
Darren: "
yeah, it’s rising, I have seen this happening..."
Hu Shi’s 1927 editorial on the impending demise of Christianity in China (
1)
Dr Ross Grainger: "
I’m not sure if Hu Shi is right or..."
Behaving yourself… with Tianjin characteristics (
4)
Joel: "
Right. My point was that popular usage of the term is..."
Curtis: "
Joel, I don’t believe this usage of..."
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Chinese take-out
Good good study, day day up!
Pronounced: lán jīnglíng
Literally: blue spirit/demon/fairy
Means: a Smurf, the Smurfs
- 2010/07/01
InterWǎng Debris
Recent China internet debris.
China in 2013 -- a dystopian novel skewers "the China model of development"
The China Beat provides a helpful summary of a dystopian novel critical of the way things are in China: "The novel can be read ... as a realistic presentation of the shocking darkness behind the dazzling economic miracle created by the Chinese model. It also proposes that China’s younger generations suffer from the consequences of collective amnesia and historical half-truths... The book can also be read ... as an allegory of the modern nation-state. Taking China as a case study, by questioning the morality and political legitimacy of the Chinese model of development, the novel is intended to lead us to the potential catastrophes that a modern nation-state may bring about if it is out of its people’s control."
- 2010/07/28
Air pollution update & links (it's getting worse)
The Ministry of Environmental Protection acknowledged on Monday that the first half of 2010 had the worst air quality since 2005.
The good doctor in Beijing recently conducted a new air pollution survey around the city, comparing indoor and outdoor pollution, and the effects of things like air purifiers.
There's also an air pollution Q&A with another doctor in Beijing about the actual effects on healthy people and when and where to exercise.
- 2010/07/27
NPR series: "New Believers - a religious revolution in China"
NPR has an on-going series on the apparent rise of religious belief in China.
- 2010/07/24
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