
Learn to cross the divide into the gray wonderland where the Yin and Yang come apart.
American essayist and novelist based in China since 1994. Writing philosophy: downmarket, big concept, provocative, discriminating, outrageous. Ballard, Beckett, Borges, Dick, Kafka, Hesse, Melville, Mishima, Sade are influences.
Learn to cross the divide into the gray wonderland where the Yin and Yang come apart.
A Taipei masseuse’s rare combination of expert technique and open-mindedness makes for the most intense of massages.
Hypnotic video of cargo ship passing down the Yangtze River in Wuhan at night.
The jostling voices and fraught sexual ambivalence of Anglo-Americans writing about China.
The two most prominent American composers of our time have more in common than it would seem.
Putting a song on repeat is as logical to the Chinese as decorating the walls of a room with the same wallpaper.
Chinese cities happily gut their historical districts to rebuild them into cheesy simulacra which in turn will soon see the bulldozer.
Debut autobiographical novel will appeal to fans of Hermann Hesse, Philip K. Dick, J. G. Ballard and other novelists of the uncanny.
When I asked students what they learned in their politics classes, they couldn’t even remember the names of the courses.
If it reclaimed its water system, Beijing could become a great city of canals.
“Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: ‘Here are our monsters,’ without immediately turning the monsters into pets” — Derrida
When measured against other ancient civilizations, China is not 5,000 years old but more like 3,000-3,500 years old.
The sexual fees levied on hubby would compensate working wives for the housework they do on top of their day job.
It was not just Shakespeare’s obsession; we can assume virtually the entire audience attending his plays was syphilitic.
Our distaste for the white piano stems from certain associated stars of the Easy Listening school (Liberace, Clayderman, etc.): music for people who don’t like music.