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Cobblestones and Lions in Longmen

Chinese New Year shopping in Majin

Dutch Signs in Xixinan

A Dam in Yuliang

The Last Road To Zaotai

The Path and Meaning

Choosing focus

Hyperreality

In Praise Of Writing (And the Case Against AI)

Secret Listening #6

Secret listening #5

Chosen Streets

Thirty kilometers out

Ways to harmony

The Return of Magic

Toilet Egg Pancake

These Same Roads Again

To Taipei and Back in a Day

A summer’s day in autumn

Mary in Qibao

Empty shops

Neighbourhood Temple

Expat Tax

Taxi app

Searching for private space

Hasse

Today’s ride along chicks and rickety buildings

Ender’s Game review

Exploring with FlashFM

Three thousand steps from home

The dark outdoor air

Shandong couple

Towards the light

Mountains & hikes near Shanghai (update 2025)

A hundred kilometers from Shanghai and a thousand miles from work

Fresh market

Altstadt

The old continent

Back to Jiading

Shanghai before the foreigners

A thousand miles in Cambodia

Underneath the stars

What is literature, and why read the books we read?

How to get a job in China

The lone tower

On the edge of Zhejiang

Coins on the roof and a hole in my jacket

Alone in the mountains with my mind

No signal

Rice with a bang

Searching for a wall

My first visit to the United States

Tourism in Anhui

Tidal wave near the Wengjin Line

Convos

Everything in Zhoupu

The old Japanese fortress

Back to Xinchang

The Great Wall of Shanghai

Scorching Songjiang

Two hours to Huzhou

Lots of history, but we’re just casually observing in Songxicun

Old Baoshan in the rain

Gaoqiao, unintentionally the best-preserved area of Shanghai

Numbers in Pinghu

The empty town in Shanghai

Secret listening #4

Long-necked chicken

Words waiting to be spoken, in Zhelin

‘Sea Salt’, near the sea

Away from the cities, underneath the Milky Way

The path we would have never walked

Twenty kilometers yet worlds apart

My favorite places in Shanghai

Understanding China (or actually; how not to misunderstand it)

Turtles and longevity

Beneath and inside the clouds in Tai’an

Locked down and out again

How to know whether you’ve found a good language teacher

Buying poultry

Faces in the fire – Chinese New Year in rural Nantong

Secret listening #3

Porcelain shards of history

Life in a café

I’ve seen the future of China

Three peaks and a railway station

Ye Garden in Shanghai

Ordinary people (老百姓)

Secret listening #2

For this live, not the next

Age shaming on national television

Looking down on people is bad practice, especially for marketeers

Five books I recommend because they’re profound

Goblins & Howard Roark

You cannot see yourself

Press stroke

Innovation isn’t flying cars or VR glasses

Chinese Elders

Tap the mind to grasp the enormity of change in China

Questions Nobody Asks

The strange ticking sound

Man at the bay

Creating media with meaning

Flaws

Science fiction without lasers

Leo Ehrlich

Thiago Christo

Christina Fieni

Fidele Hage

Gauri Burma

Bruno Setola

Diane Costa

Peterson Joseph

Gran Turismo 5 review

Microsoft builds online tracking blocking feature into IE9

Food for your brain

Accepted to the Willem de Kooning Academy!

A brief copywriting lesson

Science and the truth

The kingdom inside my head

All money is power

Statistics and the truth

Strategic lawn mowing