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In the summer of 2006, several of us in Beijing launched a project called “Adso Textbook”. The goal was producing an archive of manually-annotated selections from classic Chinese literature. I’m proud of the results, and happy that the readings are back online as part of a freshly-redesigned NewsinChinese.
That’s the other big news. After about a […]

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Bach’s Concerto in D-Minor is hands-down my favourite piece of classical music. It was written for two harpsichords, but everyone plays it as a piano+orchestra concerto these days. The recording below is by Timur Sergeyenia, who gets extra points for having his own website and referring to himself as an International Konzertsolist on it.

I’ve been […]

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Stumbled onto an excellent interview with Tim Schafer at the online journal Game Studies. Tim Schafer was a game designer for LucasArts back in the mid-1990s when they were at the peak of adventure gaming and had yet to really start milking the Star Wars franchise.
I don’t have the time or equipment to play computer […]

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I like 朴树 the best of his contemporaries. He isn’t shy about embracing commercialism, but avoids cliches, writes his own music, and had the taste to star in one of the best independent art films ever made in China (那时花开 - the film was banned for something like three years and I don’t know if you can buy it legally now, […]

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