Riding my bike for a couple hours this afternoon, sticking to the low hills as the snow it only a couple hundered meters above town. On my way home I ran into a friend on the street. He has just moved to town this summer and is looking at his first winter in ZD. As we continued down the side walk he confesed finding pleasure in work and using work to combat boredom. One of the facts of life in small towns is that if you don't know how to keep your self buisy you will loose you mind. It's true, I'm not just saying that for effect.
Then as we were parting ways, he casualy mentioned that it was -10C last night. which means it was -10c in my house. It's intresting how you get use to these things. always being a little bit cold. it's not like cold weather in Canada, where it's just cold out side. Here it's cold every where. Even houses and coffee shops have a nip to them. The cold becomes part of life here, so normal that you give it very little thought, even if it is a constent topic of conversation and plan your day around it.
I was on my way to meet Zhu Xueqin, the best-known of the Chinese intellectuals who describe themselves as ‘liberal’. In 1998, Zhu, often openly critical of the Communist regime, wrote the introduction to a book called Pitfalls of Modernisation, a denunciation of Chinese official corruption, that was subsequently banned; and I expected to meet someone living in somewhat straitened circumstances. . . .
Zhu had just finished elementary school in Shanghai when the Cultural Revolution began. In line with Mao’s desire to expose intellectuals to the conditions of the working class and peasants, he voluntarily spent four years in one of the poorest regions in Henan province with a group of idealistic students who wanted to combine a life of manual labour with self-directed study. In 1972, he moved with them to a factory and spent ten years there, working through the day and reading at night, before eventually resuming his formal education in 1982, just as Deng Xiaoping began to marketise large sections of China’s state-controlled economy. . . .
Rodin: November 11, 2006-February 18, 2007. Shanghai Sculpture Space, 570 Huaihai Xi Lu, Open 10 am-4 pm daily except Monday. Tickets: 20 RMB. Ticket hotline: 6280 7844.
FOREIGNER PROMOTES CHENGDU
By Chengdu Weekly News
19th November 2006
Expatriate writer Warren Rodwell has been in China since 2002. Many feature stories,
reviews and photographs written or taken by him have been published online or in
hardcopy media form.Warren teaches university postgraduates in Chengdu.He also
The last Electronic Lounge this year with DJ JOE and Douglas playing viola, cello, pipa, erhu and MCing.
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dub/grime/dubstep/drum'n'bass
Date and time
December 1st 2006
Friday start 10 PM (open end)
Location
Le Cafe Paname(e) - French Cafe
Kehua BeiLu 143 (opposite the SOHO building)
Blue Carribean Plaza 2nd floor
Entrance
free
CONTACT
13018236092
SPECIAL PROMOTION
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Treehouse seems to be having troble connecting to the Chinese Rail Network website so up to date times are not always available. any idea how long this will continue?
ps- I know about the archive facility but this is not always useful.
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A weekly ShanghaiExpat tradition. Sundays from noon onward, this event
allows expats and other community members to come to Coffee Bean in
Xin Tian Di to get together and chat, compare notes and enjoy a good cup
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Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf at Xin Tian Di (63874248)
Wikipedia was blocked for a while, then unblocked for a short bit recently, but it's apparently been blocked again. There's usually some lag before these blocks reach me, but this time it's already blocked here as well. China looks like it won't be getting an online collaborative encyclopedia any time
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