Sitemap - 2024 - CJK

translation excerpt, revolutionary networking, memoir-novel of the summer of '66, lovelorn red guard sets out on a train to shanxi

Ainu trivia [a partial entry on Ainu Wedding (1971), Ota Ryu]

An entry about meat in bread [Vancouver suburbs romance / the ethical weight of food waste versus food theft]

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]

Incomplete: Notes for a personal essay about masochism, art, and spirituality [Wang Zuxian, fox spirits, Venus in Furs, Kali, tanned gyaru]

Instead of anything substantial, a brief personal essay about living in a foreign country

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]

Notes on the Mao Dun Prize [anodyne, intended for publication in another outlet]

Short entry on crime and sex [Uguisudani, the problem of 1991, neoliberalism and underworld syndicates, "violence gangs" versus developers, "the secret is crime"].

Recycled: Chinese walls 3 【刻章办证发票 13775404001 刻章办证发票 15051157676 刻章办证发票 13775404001 刻章办证发票 15051157676 刻章办证发票 13775404001 刻章办证发票 15051157676】[part of a series, across 2019 / 2022 / 2024]

Recycled: Chinese walls 2 [part of a series, across 2013 / 2022 / 2024]

I will give you a sample of untranslated Liu Cixin — lonely at Niangziguan Power Station, writing about the perfect woman, cybernetic governance, and saving the Yellow River

Acknowledgement that I have published an article: "A Brief History of Chinese Cybernetics"

The saddest music in the world / haunted + haunting broadcasts, abductee radio in North Korea, the dreams of the disappointed

Notes on Korea: history wars (visible and invisible), the New Right, and unification [a dull, limited account, but hopefully useful ahead of more serious consideration]

Notes on the Japanese market for second-hand pocketbooks

Very brief notes: Another inscription on the Tomb of the Unknown Incel / The reason that self-help has swallowed what was left of political discourse / How to pick up women

A few notes on international relations, Taiwan, Korea, and the noble and unmarketable decision to predict that nothing will happen

Leaving the Bathhouse (scattered thoughts, scenes from the bathhouse / only notes, toward an essay never to be written)

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