Anyone who wants to learn more about the young Chinese nationalists that were behind much of the anti-CNN backlash around the time of March’s T1bet riots should read Evan Osnos’ piece in this week’s New Yorker. It paints an interesting and far account of some of China’s young conservatives in Shanghai. If anyone who is [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Reading List’
July 24, 2008
How to Turn My Week Around
WIth all the frustration I’ve been going through on the Olympic editorial I’ve been writing it’s felt like a less than successful week work wise. That changed today not cause I finally got the editorial right — we’ve switched to looking at the Olympics as a way to share Chinese culture so I’ll be taking [...]
July 22, 2008
I Could Use A Little Escapism
Well as I mentioned in my last post, I’m a little fed up with the Olympics right now. It’s not that I’ve got anything against the Olympics. I just have an Olympic-sized enormous Olympics hangover from all the coverage that it’s getting in the news here (as it should) and from working on this Olympics [...]
July 16, 2008
A China-free Summer Reading List
Recently I’ve really been enjoying two Canadian literary blogs, Seen Reading and the Quillblog. Seen Reading is about what one writers sees Canadians reading while the other is from a respected Canadian literary journal. All the books they discuss sound so great that I just want to go out and buy as many Canadian authors [...]
June 28, 2008
One More Quick Note
For those of you who didn’t click on the links in my last post, I’ve started to write for Lost Laowai again. You can find my latest post here.
Next post will be from back home in Shanghai.
J.
April 6, 2008
Revisit the Shanghai International Literary Festival
Reading Cityweekend yesterday, I found out that the editors had recorded many of the talks from the Shanghai International Literary Festival. Having attended the festival I think this is a great way for those who couldn’t attend to catch up on speeches by Paul French, Duncan Hewitt and Rob Gifford. You can find the podcasts [...]
March 16, 2008
A Note on Qiu Xiaolong
On Friday I made another trip down to the Shanghai International Literary Festival to see mystery writer Qiu Xiaolong in conversation with Beijing-based mystery writer Catherine Sampson.
It was a great event for me because I have been reading Qiu’s work for about a year now. I find his books to be really [...]
March 12, 2008
Video Picking Up Where the Book Left Off
In my last post, I mentioned I was reading Duncan Hewitt’s Getting Rich First. Today I found out that Thomas Crampton posted a video of an interview he did with Hewitt recently. Hewitt spoke about the Internet, angry teenagers and censorship. The video is worth watching for those who have read the book as well [...]
January 27, 2008
Thoughts on 9/11
I wasn’t thinking about writing about 9/11 in this space. It’s not really a China-focused issue — Chinese people died on 9/11 but the country hasn’t participated in Afghanistan or Iraq — and the personal connection it has for me is a very tenuous one. The reason I am writing about 9/11 is because I [...]
January 27, 2008
Some Suggested Reading for a Sunday (from One-Eyed Panda’s Del.ico.us Feed)
Here’s some articles I’ve enjoyed from the last week that I think are worth Sharing:
Use “Caution” Least “Lust” be Misjudged, The Sex is the Key to Understanding — an article asking people to look beyond the sex in Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution
China Has a Morality Crisis by Xujun Eberlein — China has a moral crisis [...]
