It was cold, even for November in Beijing. No sun shining through the gunmetal gray skies, it would be another three weeks until the central planning committee would turn the great knob that would bring heat into homes throughout the city. And I had gout again.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘China’
Legs and Labia: The Sculpture of Luo Xu
His work has been described as erotic, powerful, surreal and even profane. He is enamored – some might say obsessed – with the female form. But Kunming-based sculptor Luo Xu has no regrets. This self-professed “free imperialist” and “leader and overlord of myself,”[...]
Golfing Through the Dynasties
Many international publications, from Golf Digest to the New York Times, have jumped on the chuiwan bandwagon, trumpeting the claim of a Lanzhou-based academic that China, not Scotland, invented the great game. Now, even more intriguing “evidence” has been uncovered that’s sure to have splutte[...]
Night at the Bison
My photographer is on the drink again. I told him that we’d both need to be sharp and on our best behavior for this story, but somewhere in between the phone call and the taxi ride to the Bison club, he managed to swill down a load of Cheap Chinese spirits. I do not like [...][...]
May 6th, 2010 - 2:39 am § in Uncategorized
Uncles and Daughters of Mother Lake
Some cultural diehards insist on clinging to the antiquated American 1950’s sitcom notion of “a nuclear family”; one father, one mother, and a combination of siblings roughly divided up to make the average norm of 2.5 children. But there are some cultures in which this notion of family would s[...]
