Zhang Jingsheng and Methods for Organizing a Beautiful Society [woolgathering: aesthetic education, the New Culture Movement, etc.] [fulfilling promise to provide at least two Zhang Jingsheng entries]
Zhang Jingsheng and Methods for Organizing a Beautiful Society [the Confucian aesthetic state, the necessity of gynocracy, cures for nymphomania, rule of beauty] [first of two Zhang Jingsheng entries]
white nights jia pingwa [at the beginning of a lengthy excerpt (STRANGE EVENTS, OPERA, SELF-IMMOLATION OF THE REINCARNATED MAN) a few notes on jia pingwa in translation]
North Korea is too normal [the internet and free markets delivering freedom was not a myth at all | cashless payment, free markets, regional real estate speculation for a more probable scenario]
I would like to write about fragrances [an entry about mostly Japanese incense | an entry about home written from the road | a final indulgence before returning to serious subjects]
Two plates of chukadon [allowing myself a self-indulgent entry to break writer's block] [chuka ryori considered, polemical digression about Japanese food culture, agriculture and leisure]