Entries from The Unofficial Stanford Blog tagged with 'China'
Things I Love About China: Reflections on Summer 2007
Coming home On Friday, my two-month stay here in China comes to a close, and I return home to San Francisco and Stanford. With a few minutes here and there between packing, going away dinners, and a magical trip...
Watching Pootie Tang in Beijing
My China kit With less than two weeks before I return home from Peking University, it's time I finally offered some scattered thoughts on two of my favorite films of all time, two films which have kept this lonely...
I should not have eaten that camel.
I wonder if they knew. So, I'm back in Beijing now after a ten-day trip to the southwestern cities of Dali (Yunnan) and Chengdu (Sichuan). I attended a week long conference called Crossing Borders and Paradigms: Anthropology of Southwest...
Hall of the Supreme Something or Other
On July 17, my two best friends Andy and Salley (not pictured above) came to visit me from the United States. It was the culmination of a plot we hatched back at Johns Hopkins University, where the three of...
The Taiyuan Uprising of 2007 (太原起义)
Where in the world is Professor Mullaney When the balding Chinese man in his sixties began to pound the information counter repeatedly, his voice growing hoarse from berating the stunned airline attendant, I knew that the situation had truly...
Supergirl Liu Liyang spotted with BBQ-scented foreigner
刘力扬, aka, Supergirl [The harrowing conclusion of Look for me in the Chinese tabloids. For those who missed Episode One, you can find it here.] When we arrived at Agnes B, I felt about as sexy as a compost...
Look for me in the Chinese tabloids (Part 1 of n)
Where am I and how did I get here? "This one is your wife and this one is your lover," the bartender explained, pointing first to the glass of ice cold water and then to the flute of complementary...
East by East East
Ch-Indie Cred On July 7, I headed to Ch-Indie Fest II, an outdoor independent music festival with a name you could only get away with in China. Accompanied by my friends Andrew, Frances, and Alex, I can tell you...
Purism, aka, The Near Life Experience
The day before I departed for Beijing, my Father asked me if I was concerned about my Chinese language proficiency, particularly since I hadn't been to China in a number of years. I was, I explained, but also suspected that...
Thanksgiving in June
The Asian Century? I say it's the Pumpkin Bread Century. Tomorrow is the big day. At 11:15 in the morning, I set off for China to put the finishing touches on my first book, and to begin exploring a...
All is not lost: ruminations on disappearance and my famous blue recorder
Reunited, and it feels so good Seven months ago, on the thirtieth day of November, 2006, my former band The Black Spoons played its last San Francisco show at The Make Out Room. It was not a proper Black...
Summer in China: T-Minus Seven Days
Random shot of me and my buddy/bandmate MG In all the tumult of the past few weeks, a fog of preparation and closure, I nearly lost sight of a small, personal milestone. It was nine years ago, nearly to...
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