Documentary Filmmaker, based in China. 25+ year Expat. I won't die on a couch. https://xitter.cf/t.co/CBDgs8YG5i
Shanghai, China
Joined July 2009
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I finally created an account on Bluesky.
If you are on there as well I'd like it if we kept in touch.
@memostothefuture.bsky.social
Seen on the street in Putuo district today, guerrilla advertising.
I suppose it's for a cheap (shared?) apartment for delivery riders? Can anyone explain?
TIL that the small robots Chinese hotels use to send deliveries to rooms can be directly filled by the delivery riders, freeing up hotel staff.
It's common enough that drivers all seem to know how to utilize them.
Tonight, experimental classical pianist Belle Chen from the UK is bringing her grand piano and synthesizer mixes to Jazz Lincoln in Shanghai.
This is going to be a small but very special show. Audiences in China are just beginning to discover this style and it's not easy to grow.
For concert promoters like us these types of artists are the most exciting. It's not something you earn money with, it's an investment in the hope that they will grow. You choose artists you find cool yourself, who you believe can catch on here. It's nerve-racking at times.
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Neither Cartier-Bresson, Banksy nor Cold War Steve could have come up with such an image. Absolutely perfect composition and lighting (even the road signs are perfect)! 😍
This Sunday, the incredible Belle Chen will be performing for the first time in Shanghai.
We're excited to be organizing this. Hope to see you there.
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An in-depth dispatch from my colleague, Andrew Higgins, after his recent, 6-month stint here in mainland China.
Where Every Tree Hides ‘an Enemy’: How I Watched China’s Paranoia Grow nytimes.com/2026/10/11/world… via @NYTimes
Xinrou Shu is @Xinrou6 once again spitting fire, this time writing on 抒情的森林 and the many Chinese writers they have taken down, among them Zhong Shu of recent Christopher Nolan-interview fame.
Anyone not reading Peking Quack is missing out.
pekingquack.substack.com/p/t…
Everyone has an “Arriving in China” story.
Few are as dramatic as Uwe Kräuter’s.
In 1974, the German university student was sentenced to two years in prison after a violent anti-Vietnam War demonstration in Heidelberg.
Then China came calling.
He went.
youtu.be/dOHZgWNG4tc
Uwe Kräuter lives in Beijing to this day. He first visited Germany in 1980, bringing the theater play "Tea House" to Mannheim just a few months after his prison sentence expired.
You can read more about that in our substack update:
livinghistorychina.substack.…
