England was home to the first great school of classical chamber music, preceding the Viennese School of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven by two centuries.
John Dowland and the lost English Consort School of chamber music
Why Airbnb ain’t my cup of tea
The ambiguous host/guest boundary in many Airbnb households makes for most inhospitable stays.
Macau and the writer: A photo essay
Photo essay of old Macau with nudes and choice literary quotations.
American rococo
The rococoesque beauty of the American ghetto and the obese.
The question of breeding (why foreign men get the “ugly” Chinese girls)
Tongue-in-cheek explanation (with more than a grain of truth) of why it’s so hard to land a Chinese beauty.
At the Teahouse Café: Essays from the Middle Kingdom
What decades of living in China have taught this American expat.
The many faces of Chinese “face”
Chinese “face” and Chinese “apathy” reconsidered in dynamic relationship.
