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The Kingston Canadian Film Festival screened Lixin Fan’s Last Train Home this past Sunday afternoon.
While the train and station scenes brilliantly visualize the annual railway struggle, the film is more about the shaky situation of the migrant worker family in 21st century China.  From the richest Shanghai families down to the poorest migrants, China [...]

My colleague and I gave our final presentation about Fudan University and the China exchange at noon today. I’ve never been sad after a presentation.  Usually I’m ecstatic.
In some ways, this presentation could represent the end of my China adventures…and I’m quite sad about that.  Standing up in front of the dozen or so [...]

Ant tribes in the Chinese suburbs
They are like ants: clever, weak and living in groups

A new term (for me, at least) describing a sub-cohort of China’s massive migrant worker population.  From my understanding of the article, name is applied to the 22-29 year old, largely rural floating population in China’s major cities.  Rather than forming [...]

Nice to see hear of folks who still carry compasses around with them when they travel.  Moscow Times:

Far East border guards have detained a Chinese man who said he was traveling to New York from China by foot, RIA-Novosti reported Thursday.
The traveler, a young man who was not identified, was expensively dressed and carried a [...]

Like I’ve mentioned before, I believe the censorship and human rights dimensions of Google’s pull-out argument is largely smoke-screen done in an effort to make-up with Western audiences in regards to their controversial 2006 decision to base their servers on the Mainland.
What I don’t think is being discussed enough in media is the simple [...]

I can’t get enough.  I’ve only been watching China for about 7 years (not too long) but I’ve never come across a shaking story like this. 
Google is annoyed…pissed is probably an more appropriate description.
Some of my thoughts.
While their human rights dimension is probably smoke-screen whipped up for Western fans, Google is making [...]

Squeeze an image/media entry in amongst the seemingly ever mounting SURP work.
From the CBC a few days back and while it is hardly an original comparison, I had to insert the images (just because I’m a Star Wars geek).

This is an eigenharp, created 2009 and not in a galaxy, far, far away.  It’s [...]

Looking across to the north bank from the isolated green boardwalk.  Those particular units have probably been there for over 100 years and are a good example of residential units that use to exist along the river.  Don’t get nostalgic tough, those units are really poor condition and probably should be torn down.  What they [...]

Looking across to the south side of from Si Hang Warehouse Suzhou Creek meanders itself through some newer condominium developments which could be a sign of items to come on the lesser developed north bank.  One must continually switch back and forth between the north and south banks in order to avoid both construction and [...]

With the amazing architecture of the Bund, the awesome skyline of Lu Jia Zuii and the Expo 2010 site, it is probably easy to say that Huangpu River exists as Shanghai’s predominant water body.  However, the Huangpu retains it’s industrial soul, Lu Jia Zui is a little too much image,  the Bund a little too [...]