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Monthly Archives: September 2008
Twitter Updates for 2008-09-30
@sagebrennan Congratulations! Now you are going to have to start acting your age…sometimes. # Bonjour Peijin , C’est le bon moment pour faire une pause # listening to devendra banhart for the first time # Powered by Twitter Tools. addthis_url … Continue reading
It gets cold here in late September
“It gets cold here in late September”—I dont remember the rest of the song anymore. It was the autumn of 1999, probably around late September or early October. The place: the main cafeteria at the University of Washington, Seattle. I … Continue reading
Twitter Updates for 2008-09-29
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Twitter Updates for 2008-09-29
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Qin Hui interview from Southern Metropolis Weekly: social justice and the urban poor in China
These are some excerpts that I translated from the original article in Chinese. 人物周刊：现在有一个现象，就是在城郊结合部农村集体所有制的土地上，建起了很多村民建的房，一租30年，相当于商品房。许多城里人因为买不起城里的房子，会向那边流动，把外来务工者可以租住的农民房的价格又抬高了。 秦晖：对，这个是国际上贫民住房的一个非常重要的问题。实际上政府也没有驱赶穷人，但是贫民区住的人多，价格抬高，穷人住不起就都走掉了。这是市场经济带来的问题，我觉得还是要靠国家福利来解决。 NFZK: Recently there’s been a phenomenon of city people moving outwards towards the countryside, living in homes that were intended for migrant workers and peasants, … Continue reading
1980 RMB for a round-trip flight from Shanghai to Copenhagen…
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Aerial pictures of Chinese pollution from Southern Weekend
南方周末 – 【写真】一次航拍的意外发现：伤痕 via kwout I saw these pictures in the paper version and now saw them online…they are amazing both aesthetically (aerial shots) and because of the sad reality that they reveal–the irreversible degradation of China’s environment. The pictures … Continue reading
Books I’m Reading: Paris: The Secret History
I looked up the word “flaneur” in the index of hte boojks and skipped straight to it: I’d heard this term first in books by and about Walter Benjamin, and the idea of these urban wanderers–poets, wastrels, misfits, outsiders, rebels–was … Continue reading
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Twitter Updates for 2008-09-28
RIp Paul Newman # looks like google notebook has received some upgrades…just when i started getting comfortable with evernote! # freebypass.net/Gladder actually WORKED in shanghai…sweet. # Powered by Twitter Tools. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fpeijinchen.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F09%2F28%2Ftwitter-updates-for-2008-09-28%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Twitter+Updates+for+2008-09-28′; addthis_pub = ”;
Drag party @ Shanghai Studio
IMG_2272_edit, originally uploaded by monkeyking. OK, so i know that you don’t see anyone in drag here, but this picture was taken at the drag party at Shanghai Studio. I just liked the picture becuase of the girl in the … Continue reading