Joshua Samuel Brown

A Year in the Isles of Wind ~ Topics Magazine

Not long into my wife’s one year contract at a small school here in Penghu, we both realized we were desperate to leave. I know what you’re thinking: If this is a travel article,
we’re off to a bad start…

Goodbye to All That ~ Asia Sentinel

As Yangshuo sheds its backpack-friendly trappings for Qing-chic pretenses, businesses like Linda’s may well find themselves an anachronism in a town selling its own sanitized version
of antiquity.

Kingdom of ashes ~ HK Weekend Standard

The future of the Mosuo tribe is hazy after commercial development threatens to restore a fire ravaged village, Disney-style

Starfish, Scorpions & Lizards on Sticks ~ Business Traveler Asia.

“It’s dried tiger penis extract. It’ll make you able to have sex all night long,” he says, offering me enough for a week-long orgy for three hundred Yuan.

Verboten Mountain ~ Weekend Standard / Things Asian

…But Chairman Mao didn’t have to bribe the park authorities to get in, and we did.

A Hong Kong Cat’s Tale ~ Cat Fancy

A heartwarming tale of cats and people who like seeing cats neutered.

Spring Scream in the Year of the Dog ~ HK Weekend Standard

When the lead singer screamed “Hello how are you I’m fine and you please give me some toast and eggs”at the crowd, I was gripped with metal blood lust and nearly knocked
myself unconscious bashing my head against the stage.

Not your everyday doctors ~ HK Weekend Standard

Meet the dashing doctors of ISOS, escorting the ill, injured and occasionally deranged across the globe…

Magic in the Cards ~ HK Weekend Standard

A fantasy game is thinking big about its future fan base in China

Seven Hours in the Soul of Seoul ~ Things Asian

Despite the well known Korean love of brawling, I’m surprised at the sight of two middle-aged denim-clad men beating the shit out of each other on the sidewalk…

Monks, Baguettes & Shopping Too ~ Things Asian / City Weekend

The French left their subjects with an appreciation for coffee and baguettes.

Going Nowhere on the Bolivan Plateau ~ Things Asian

Using a bamboo pole I’d picked up to ward off snakes I slowly battered a path to the source of the roar…

Hard and soft ~ HK Weekend Standard

“In my country we call this a police hold,” I say, wincing in pain. “Yes,” replies the sensei. “In mine we use it for that too.”

Open Prison ~ South China Morning Post

It’s my second trip to Green Island, home of Taiwan’s once feared political prison. And once again, a transvestite is involved.

The Fool Monty ~ South China Morning Post

…Michael Palin is no stranger to dealing with mystified geeks…

Confessions Of A Sweatshop Inspector ~ Albion Monitor

“Calvin Klein, Wal-mart, Kathie Lee: They all want the same thing. Chinese labor, the cheaper the better…”

In the Boot Camp of the Mind ~ Topics

All sensation shares the same quality of impermanence. An itch, an ache, a pain. They all are born. They all rise, then they disappear.

Daughters of Mother Lake ~ Clamor Magazine

All-You-Can-Eat Mutton, Walking Marriages, and the future of the Mosuo matriarchal society.

Late Night Taipei Smackdown ~ Things Asian

It was a hot August night in Taipei, and I was about to be beaten up in public, perhaps severely.

Searching for Pablo ~ South China Morning Post

I emerged from the darkened auditorium with all thoughts of Picasso gone, replaced by visions of myself leading an upwardly mobile urban lifestyle.

Newfoundland, Codless and Charming South China Morning Post

…We made good time, and were soon crossing over the narrow isthmus onto the Avalon Peninsula, on the easternmost edge of which lay St. John’s, and the promised drunken
debauchery.

Girls On Top ~ South China Morning Post

“I read these articles about my so-called promiscuity…Wow, if only I were this person that everybody thinks I am, maybe I wouldn’t be so damned lonely.”

*Proof the Chinese invented Golf*

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