My Publications… A Few Things I am Working On 27 Sep 20111 Oct 2011 In the tradition of City Lights Books and Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "I Am Waiting," I am working very slowly on a process and I am working on re-acquiring the previously acquired…
Cultural Politics… North Korean Metaphor War: Whether Adrift or Storming Forward in the Post-Cold War Epoch, the DPRK Remains Not So Much an Enigma as a Deep Cultural Bunker Into Which One, Generally Speaking, Can Only Enter By Pounding on a Piano 12 Sep 20117 Jan 2013 If I had a nickel for everytime I read the words "according to Kim Jong Il's former Japanese chef" I could buy enough rice to feed entire boatloads of squid…
China… Democratic/Thought Reform in Tibet 3 Sep 20113 Sep 2011 Man liveth not by links alone, but I did want to make note that, as of Labor Day, this blog will very likely be turning its attentions with greater regularity…
Chinese communist party… Sino-Japanese Sehnsucht 7 Jul 2011 This post is my own small commemoration of July 7 in the Chinese context; it is a bit of a centaur in that the first half is rather traditional scholar-style…
Pensee Post-Industrial Requiem {I} 16 Mar 201116 Mar 2011 Not requiem for a blog, fortunately. After some nine days of nebulous nonsense, finally bolted from morasses multiple, the author has returned to seek the fulcrum, and -- now to…
Cultural Politics… Bertold Brecht in North Korea 7 Mar 20117 Mar 2011 Well, more like Brecht for North Korea. North Koreans may need Bibles, but no less, they need the acidic and informed spite, the angular mockery of state power which is…
Art… ‘Succession is the Issue’: Rap Ditty on the Kim Clan and Sino-North Korean Relations 18 Feb 201128 Feb 2011 If you want footnotes or typed lyrics, then they shall be produced. Otherwise, enjoy this little ditty, which began in the pre-dawn with a civilized train ride and a consequent…
China… Tibetan Language Education in Greater Tibet 23 Oct 2010 JustRecently has posted an excellent summary (including a link to this Global Times story) of the recent protests in Qinghai province surrounding the issue of Tibetan vs. Mandarin language education. This…
Beijing… Strength and Sinophobia 8 Aug 2010 Beijing and its great northeastern beyond -- the vast and flooded expanses of Northeast China -- are looming in my immediate future. T-minus five days. Footsteps in Beijing, amid its…
