Entries by AlanPaul

Hong Lou Si — Red Snail Temple

Last week, we took a Sunday afternoon trip to Red Snail Temple, about an hour north of here, close to the Mutianyu Great Wall section, which we have visited countless times. It was our second visit to the Temple. It’s a pretty area and a cool old temple, with a funky statue garden of red-capped […]

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More gigging…

We had two gigs last week. The first was at the biggest place we play, Yugong Yishan, a big rock club with a capacity of over 500, a big stage, light and sound system, and the second was at the smallest, Jianghu Jiuba, a tiny cozy hutong bar with a capacity of about 70, including […]

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Super Moverz

The kids were off school all last week and attended Super Moverz Camp at school. It’s hard to describe how much they loved it. This is run by our friend Wyatt, who is moving to San Diego and ramping it up in the U.S. this summer. Check out the website. Anna, aka Inferno and Eli, […]

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Last column

I’ve gotten slack about posting my columns up here. Here is my last one, even as I finish up my next one, which will post Thursday late afternoon, EST.

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More history

I came across this really interesting, must-read article by Peter Hessler about Han attitudes towards the big T. It is a pretty complex issue with a long and deep history. Here are two key passages: When the Chinese speak of pre-1951 Tibet, they emphasize the shortcomings of the region’s feudal-theocratic government: life expectancy was thirty-six […]

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More…

This story bummed me out. It’s all about how C is clamping down on ethnically t parts of the country.. they are some of my favorite places I’ve ever been in the world and knowing this is going on out there is making me very sad. I haven’t been hearing much abut Yunnan, but in […]

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More pictures

Nero fiddled while Rome burned and Woodie Alan rocked Frank’s Place in Beijing while T land heated up last Friday night. Zhang Yong has a phtoographe friend who keeps coming to the gigs and taking cool pictures. Thanks for that.

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More Stuff

It’s still pretty exhausting and surreal here. I am really upset about what is going on T-land. Becky, of course, is working round the clock more or less, along with every other real journalist we know ( I don’t count myself in that group). It raises a lot of red flags about the Olympics, especially […]

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