Category: china

• Peking Man

  Jul 2

  The best writing sends you down random rabbit holes toward other great writing. Such was the case with a 1940 play by Cao Yu entitled Peking Man, which I first… more ›

• Project Blog It: “Love is an art…

  Sep 28

  … you learn degree by degree.” Love is artifice, a construction. It is μίμησις; ποιέσις. It is, what Heidegger calls in “Die Frage nach der Technik” the “irruption of the… more ›

• Tiananmen

  Jun 4

  I was in Beijing just a few days after the tenth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. It was still closed to the public for “renovation,” in anticipation of protests… more ›

• Jun 21

  I’m at the First International Conference on Auto/Biography listening to a twenty-minute speech turn into a forty-minute speech in Chinese with English interpretation. It’s hot and humid in the room,… more ›

• Jun 12

  I should be writing the conference paper that I will present in China in a little more than a week. But of course I am sick and unable to focus,… more ›

• Jun 8

  I counted (on my fingers and toes and a few other body parts!) last night the number of days I have left in Japan: 23. That does not include the… more ›