This artist has seen change. Chen Qiulin was born in 1975 in Hubei province in a town now underwater. The Three Gorges Dam project – China’s great engineering feat – flooded her childhood. More

After this mornings disparaging post about China’s young people, I thought I’d show the cutest little munchkins in Chengdu. Both were hanging with their proud Grandmas, totally happy for me to take some pics, and then show them off to shopkeepers and passersby. More

Spoiled Child Slaps & Chokes Mother In Public For Toy More

This is the censorship-evading Youtube video doing the rounds in China right now. I love this: children singing joyfully about the Grass Mud Horse, a wicked Chinese pun that has taken the internet by storm. It’s already been blogged about extensively here in China. But I wanted to log it here for all three of you that read this. More

Beijing, day three.  The festival is going great. My personal highlight was chatting with Zachary Mexico, the author of China Underground, in our “youth subcultures” session on Saturday. More