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Monthly Archives: March 2013

Anonymous

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Caroline M Cooper

maskI am currently reporting a story on the Indonesian response to the astonishing new film, The Act of Killing. Director Joshua Oppenheimer worked on the film for nearly a decade and has called this work, “a documentary of the imagination.”

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Posted in Blog | Tagged 1965-66 anti-communist purge, Adi, Anwar, genocide, Herman, Indonesia, The Act of Killing

Family Common Eats

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Caroline M Cooper

XiaoXiaoIIIn the winter of 2005, I took a job as a research reporter for the New York Times Beijing bureau. The capital was blustery and bitter cold, coming off another long haul winter. A fresh round of yellow dust kicked up across the city. Via The Farmer General, read more

Posted in Asia | Tagged china, cooking, mental illness, neighbors, New York Times, schizophrenia

The Teacher is Present

Posted on March 9, 2013 by Caroline M Cooper

PortraitMy first job out of college, more or less, was teaching English at a University in Beijing. Even though I had galloped into town astride the great horse that is Princeton in Asia, I was way off course.

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Posted in Blog | Tagged bankers, China fellowship, Princeton, Princeton in Asia, screwing up, teaching English in China, throwing up

The Cold War Within

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Caroline M Cooper

root56017243975“It wasn’t just the strange chance this expat took, which could have just as easily been seen as a weird or deranged little lie a man a bit too far from home might feel at liberty to tell. No.”

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Posted in Blog | Tagged Boris Orlov, expat life, expats, Moscow, Russian art, Soviet art, Tretyakov Gallery

James Merrill

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Caroline M Cooper

jmPulitzer Prize-winning poet James Merrill, who was born on this day in New York in 1926. Merrill was the son of financier Charles Merrill, founder of the brokerage Merrill-Lynch.

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Posted in Blog | Tagged dead poets, first poems, James Merrill, poetry

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