Category: china

  • Overwintering

    大家好 and happy new year! First, an announcement: if you’re going to be in Beijing in March, you can catch me at the Bookworm’s international literary festival – a staggeringly awesome lineup of guests from around the world, including a small cohort of Australians. I can’t wait to be a part of it. It’s particularly…

  • itchy teeth

    time has been slow here, but now it is certain: my days at 57 Department of Internal Affairs Street are numbered. after going through the ups and downs of a solo residency, from crushed-out excitement to awful loneliness, through all the novelties and frustrations of working in a strange environment as a near-mute illiterate, i…

  • extravagant thoughts

    this afternoon i read a sign which advised me not to allow my thoughtfulness to become extravagant, lest it damage my spleen, so i will keep this post unambitious. the sign was in temple of earth park, a few blocks north of here, where there is a medicinal garden. i mostly went there to break…