I’ve been in quarantine for 55 days now. The first 6 weeks I spent in Shanghai, and today is the the last day of a…
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I’ve been in quarantine for 55 days now. The first 6 weeks I spent in Shanghai, and today is the the last day of a…
Continue reading On covid-19 and music (plus: my new radio show)
Leave a CommentA few recent updates. My main focus at the moment is Open All the Buddha Boxes, an illustrated history of the Beijing music underground from…
Continue reading Feb 2020 Update: Book, Radio, SmartBeijing Archives
Leave a CommentThis is a feature spread about me in Chinese-language rock mag 通俗歌曲 (roughly translates to Everyday Songs). Posting it here since it doesn’t seem to…
Continue reading 通俗歌曲 article about me from May 2014
Leave a CommentOn a recent trip home, I learned a pretty crazy fact about my dad’s past that I want to share. My dad retired a few…
Continue reading George R. R. Martin in The Comic World News, 1963-64
Leave a CommentHere are some pieces of mine published in 2016 that I’m proud of: – Long-form interview with Beijing poet, freestyle rapper, scene gadfly and former…
Continue reading Pieces I was Proud of in 2016
Leave a CommentLeEco seems to have bottomless pockets at the moment. In August the company announced plans to build a $3bn eco-park/driverless car manufacturing plant in Zhejiang,…
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Leave a CommentThis is one of a few recent interviews I’ve conducted for Douban Music with artists from one of the Beggars labels, arranged by Beggars China…
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Leave a CommentHere is a thoughtful obituary from NYT for a man and an idea: Alvin Toffler and his 1971 book, Future Shock. I say it’s an…
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Comments closedI recently read All Art is Propaganda, an edition of George Orwell’s critical and political essays from a bit before to just after WWII. The…
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Leave a CommentThis is kind of cool, kind of terrifying: It is billions of people’s maps, according to Google, but it is also Google’s map, and as…
Continue reading Politics of Geography
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