Giant Steps - John Coltrane || Entire vocal scat solo • Annemieke YouTube video by Miekes Voice

Holy shit! This singer can scat John Coltrane's solo from beginning to end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZKd...

My critique of Thomas Mullaney’s “The Chinese Computer.” languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=72879

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

The Many Lives of Da Shan: Mark Rowswell on Chinese Poetry, Performing Live, and Staging Shawshank in Mandarin Mark Rowswell sits down with David Moser to look back at 38 years as a pioneering entertainment figure in China and what the future holds for Da Shan 4.0.

jeremiahjenne.substack.com/p/the-many-l...

Divided hosts.

I argue that everything Annie told the press about herself was fiction, and she never actually cycled around the world.

Sarah steps up for Annie.

Fantabulist or fabulous? Listen and decide.

Search for By Their Own Compass on Apple Podcasts and Spotify or follow the link below.

Emily Hahn: China to Me | China Books Review In her memoir of 1930s and 40s China, the New Yorker correspondent brought the country to life while coming down from opium binges in Shanghai and hiding in bomb shelters in Chongqing.

Jeremiah Jenne recounts the unbelievable life of China raconteur and NYer writer Emily Hahn @ China Books Review. How has there not been a movie made about her? chinabooksreview.com/2024/11/12/a...

Heyyy! I'm one with the great Jeremiah Jenne of "Barbarians at the Gates" Podcast to discuss a little shop - China, revolution, America, corruption, and the excesses of autocracy (with, IIRC, a featurette about the Hongwu Emperor's own persnickity feelings about his own bureaucracy.

Check it out!

Xi Built This City Xi Built This City

Jeremiah Jenne:
In this episode of Barbarians at the Gate,
@david__moser and I chat with Andrew Stokols
@astoks, who is researching varieties of digital urbanism globally, and we compare notes on the urban development of Beijing in the 21st century.
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Exile from Expat-Ville — Jeremiah Jenne David and Jeremiah speak with Mike Wester about running @thebeijinger, organizing the “Safe and Sane” communities during the pandemic, and the future of expats in Beijing. Also, Jeremiah surprises D...

I spent most of the naughts in Beijing so I enjoyed this conversation between three people I knew then, Beijinger editor Mike Wester and hosts David Moser and Jeremiah Jenne, on changes in the expat community and the role of English language media there. www.jeremiahjenne.com/the-archives...

看过这书的来倒下苦水呗。AI已经走上了另一条大力出奇迹之路，侯世达用这样一本八百页的书来折磨人，然后自己躲在普普通通的大学里天天采菊东篱下不觉得亏心吗😤

Photo from a London friend, first copy of my VERY little new book (primer on China in the Xi Era), out March 24 in Europe/Asia/Australia only (hoping to have a North American edition in the future), nice blurbs by @taniabranigan.bsky.social @davidmoserbeijing.bsky.social Victor Mallet & Cindy Yu

Four years have passed since Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine. Russia was supposed to win in three days. Instead, Ukraine reinvented modern warfare, built a drone industry, and can destroy a thousand Russian soldiers in a day. Ukraine can win.

He dreamed of a United States of Africa - The World from PRX February 24 marks sixty years since Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, was overthrown in a military coup. Nkrumah had been a vocal campaigner for Pan-Africanism, a United States of Africa that wo...

An interview about my new book, The Second Emancipation. theworld.org/segments/202...

So basically Trump can post that he’s sending a hospital ship to Greenland for no reason, then do absolutely nothing to actually send a hospital ship to Greenland because it was all a lie, and not one single Republican gets asked about it. That’s where we’re at.

David Moser | How I translated this book into Chinese Without Computers YouTube video by Living History: Stories from the Opening of China

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH36...

No one would ever manage to nail him to a piece of wood, that's for damn sure!

Thinking in Chinese and English This book explores the ways that the Chinese language shapes how native speakers see the world, offering insights into comparative politics in the process

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‘Matching Minds With Sondheim’ and ‘Ambigrammia’: The Art of the Puzzle How wordplay and devilish games of deduction can be as satisfying to the soul as a song.

Don't miss the Wall Street Journal's review of 'Ambigrammia' by Douglas Hofstadter!

Ambigram by Douglas Hofstadter, 2001. #lightisawave #lightisaparticle

This is my origin story. I know, I could knock you down with a feather.

#RadioFreeAmerica

The one and only Jeremy @goldkorn.bsky.social returns to the Sinica Podcast to say why he thinks — with DeepSeek, the TikTok Refugees on Xiaohongshu, and more — a narrative shift on China is now underway in the US. Tell us whether you agree! Link in the reply thread below.

500 modern Chinese wormhole back to the Ming Dynasty to jumpstart industrialization. A crowdsourced novel "The Morning Star of Lingao"《临高启明》— the ur-text for China's "Industrial Party." Writer Afra Wang joins the SinicaPodcast to discuss the Industrial Party, Lingao, & how China thinks about power.

Uneasy Calm: Ryan Hass on Three Pathways for U.S.-China Relations Under Trump This week on Sinica, I speak with Ryan Hass, director of the John L.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts or at the Sinica Podcast newsletter page, here: www.sinicapodcast.com/p/uneasy-cal...

The failed attempt to silent Stephen Colbert.

Beijing friends: I am looking for a place to film an interview that is related to movies or film history. This is for our "Living History" documentary series. Any help is very much appreciated.

我正在寻找一个与电影或电影历史相关的采访拍摄场地，用于我们的《活历史》纪录片系列。非常感谢任何帮助！

In 1980, Belgian engineer Gilbert Van Kerckhove attended a job interview hoping to persuade a company to hire him. Instead, the firm tried to persuade him. They had won a major contract in China but couldn’t find any engineers willing to relocate.

A Thread:

This morning we've once again been fortunate enough to be invited into the gorgeous Stanford Center at Peking University. Coming soon to Living History: Andy Andreasen, who among other things, built Beijing's Great Wall Hotel.

Ma Jian 马健 | The first NCAA athlete from China (supposed to play against Michael Jordan in the NBA) YouTube video by Living History: Stories from the Opening of China

TV didn’t teach Ma Jian 马健 how to play basketball, but it changed his game.

Meet the man who almost became China's first NBA athlete, scheduled to play against Michael Jordan.

That dream was derailed by Chinese basketball officials.

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Joerg Wuttke arrived in China in 1982. The former China head for BASF and the EU Chamber of Commerce certainly lived up to his reputation for frank talk and spicy takes in the latest Episode of Living History.

Link in the first comment!