Absurdity, Allegory and China

I have mentioned twice on this blog -  most recently a few days ago here and last year here – the story of the rumors of the Tianjin needling incidents back in 2002. I could not remember the year, whether it was 2002 or 2003. It turns out it was in 2002, and that information [...]

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Do yourself a favor and go have a look at Hans Rosling’s latest TED talk given in June 2009 at the US State Department. (I have linked to Professor Rosling’s site rather than TED, since you ought to have a look at some of the things he and others are doing there.)  This man has [...]

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When I hear any story that reports on “Needle Attacks” my initial response is “Here we go again.” Sophie Beach at China Digital Times has linked to two different stories that both call into question the veracity of the incidents reported from Urumqi. From the Toronto Star’s Was needle panic in China a fake frenzy?: [...]

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It’s difficult to get through an entire spring and summer without writing something about baseball, even if it won’t ever get much of a grip here in China. Despite the MLB’s recent series of promo events in Shanghai, Wuxi, Guangdong, Chengdu, and now, as I write, in Beijing. I think baseball has about as much [...]

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Warning: imagined full-frontal content below In my last post I wrote about the pornographic flap over the CCTV Headquarters complex, the project that continues to knot a lot of knickers. And there is no sign that it’s about to let up. It has become the piñata that won’t stop giving: whack it again and it [...]

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