Every loose-lipped, eager-eared, guppy-skinned, strange yet hopeful “journalist” who’s really just a foreign kid nosing around Beijing decides at some point that taxis really might be a great source of insight. So you ride around, take notes, organize what you’ve got and send it off to get published. And when that check arrives at your parents’ house six months later for about 100 pounds sterling and you have to pay the 15% pound-to-dollar conversion fee, you’re still happy. Via Tank Magazine, read more
Category Archives: Asia
The Mine Collector
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The story of a former soldier in Cambodia devoting his life to demining his country and raising awareness about the legacy of war. Aki Ra is a CNN Hero, but 10 years before that I wrote of his efforts to set up his museum, and the local opposition he faced in a KR-controlled north. Via The South China Morning Post, read more
Inside the Shaolin Monastery
This was followed by a sort of two-man sandwich of swords and nails and again a third monk used the sledgehammer, destroying a cluster of bricks on the top man’s stomach. Via Paper Magazine, read more
Growing Pains for Beijing Paper
“Can you really say we are mature students, living like this? Maybe someday there will be a publication that could really express these things,” and other student laments from Beijing in the year 2000. Via The Hong Kong Standard, read more
“Now we know the blackness of your heart”
I have a special affection for this clip because I was really young when I wrote it and definitely curious to see what would happen. Mystery solved: some derivation of the Ministry of Public Security detained me. As I recall, they looked pretty young too. We all had a fine time of it. I wonder how they’re doing now, if they’d want to go get a beer sometime. Via The South China Morning Post
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