right now i am hungry for some mi xian. its impossible to get in nebraska for sure...and pretty much impossible to get stateside, though i know there are a few yunnan restaurants out there somewhere ( Read more... )

(un)fortunately we have a political and cultural field (i am talking of the heidegger type of field) of homer simpsons (as much as i love the simpsons) who have put crayons up either their left or right nostrils....and when you cram the goddamn thing up there it is damn hard to tell which one...not to mention what the difference is.

following are a few photos i shot at 798 factory, dashanzi, chaoyang district, beijing. the first 4 pix are at 798 photo gallery. pictured is my friend "ye zi" (aka kurt ye, ye xiang) whom works in the photo gallery - mainly in the photo lab, but also on the floor when an english speaker is needed. at present he is a young photogragher ( Read more... )

following is a random series of photos of the preparations for the exhibition "zhang jian zhong: a retrospective" at the kunming museum:


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in the past two days i have made giant bowls of mixian for lunch. damn, i miss kunming food. there's actually a fairly new restaurant (guangzhou style - btgweb.com) here that has guoqiao mixian on their menu. i wish i hadn't tried it on sunday - it totally sucked (i should have had dimsum type stuff). anyway, i prefer just ordinary mixian ( Read more... )

i started a cui jian yahoo group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cuijian/) today and joined about 100 other yahoo groups to begin spreading the word of cui jian's upcoming u.s. and canadian tour. i had no clue there were so many chinese student groups on yahoo nearly fried my ( Read more... )