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Listening to a Chi Zhiqiang playlist (fall of '88, post-STRIKE HARD prisoner songs for sent-down youth back home, young men set free for the…
Listen, I should write about the phenomenon.
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Sinology III
The sky on Marine Day was full of big, white clouds.
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Sinology II
The final picture was taken in the bathroom of our place in Richmond.
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If Kameido is the future.
▣ The buses out of Kameido connect to places I have never heard of.
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If Sunshine City was the future.
If the future was Sunshine City, we would all live in a mall.
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Cult mound. Tokyo.
Jesse Michael awoke at dawn on the floor of Haruka’s kitchen.
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Dylan Levi King

June 2025

Sinology
▣ In Beijing, a friend and I discussed the badges around our necks that described us as “Sinologists.” I said it reminded me of anticommunist…
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Love story. Beijing.
That summer, Cedric Samuel did not leave his house for days on end.
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Early Heisei Open Air Architectural Museum [trying to take seriously the idea that "there is something to be written about the western…
▣ I moved away many years ago, but I once lived on the edge of Kanagawa.
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Three films that Zhou Xiaowen made before Ermo (1994) and after They Were Young (1986) [recycling material on conservative cinema…
[INTRODUCTION] ▣ I will write something about these films Zhou Xiaowen 周晓文: Obsession 疯狂的代价 (1988), No Regrets 青春无悔 (1991), and Rush of Youth 青春冲动…
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Diary (21) [so, months later, women dreaming of the steppe, pt 2 / pictures of transit infrastructure in the western suburbs]
I started taking notes during interviews because I thought it would put my subject at ease (a notebook and pen, my steady work would assure them that I…
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May 2025

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