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现在有一些特别好的”bridge”博客把中文的博客翻译成英文: ChinaGeeks, Veggie Discourse, chinaSMACK, ChinaHush, 等等. 这个对不能读汉语或读汉语特别满的人(之一我)有很大的好处. 通过这个博客和写的博客的人的努力我们可以更好理解中国和一些中国的现象. 这些博客的帖子部分常常有很热闹(而有时候很傻)的谈论. 有点儿遗憾的就是这个交流都是英文的所以交通都是单向的. 我希望我们外国人更努力地试试用中文跟我们中国网友联系.

我写这个文章(post怎么说?)的主要的原因是为了请求你们的推荐. 我一直再找好看的博客和别的中文的媒体. 我天天听英文的播客(podcast?), 我想听中文的但是我还没找好挺合适的. 又没有中文播客有人讨论新闻和热话题?

情把你的博客和podcast的建议写在下面或者发给我 (fred at 10tonfunk.com). ...read more

These photos actually marked the genesis of the current mo’blog series. Going through past 2+ years of photos and writing about them a bit heightened my interest in trying to explain – to myself as much as others – Beijing. There are many pictures out there showing monks holding McDonald’s bags and the like and these are great pictures that speak vividly to the paradigm shift taking place on the mainland. But there are many more changes taking place, less striking when viewed one at a time, but they pile upon themselves endlessly, are obscured, merged, and transformed.

下面的照片是我在这个博客上现在写的mo’blog系列的开端. 我在看我前两年照片和图式写出来我的感觉我的对表示我在北京的经历增加了. 写给别人看和让我自己更理解北京. 有很多照片有僧侣他们手中拿着麦当劳袋子. 这种照片很生动地标志中国的改变. 但是中国的变化更多, 比这样的照片更细微的. 假使你只看一两张比较细微的照片, 你不能理解北京的变化, 不能理解变化, 但是这个变化非常多, 一直堆在一起, 联合, 转变.

When I was young I saw Tibetan monks making a sand mandala in one of the dark cavernous wings of the Chicago Field Museum. They were most of the way through, using bags of colored sand like cake frosting to create an ...read more

I’ll never know if it’s counted or not but technically speaking I have actually voted and I did actually vote for Jorak. Despite not agreeing with most of their policies.

I’m always saying people should vote on issues and not gut and I completely voted on gut – Obama seems ridiculously calm and I think we could use that. But his policies – from healthcare, to Afghanistan, to nuclear energy, to FISA, to drilling, to Biden’s votes in 05 on the bankruptcy acts which got us where we are now… just don’t do it for me and I would have rather voted for Nader.

I know people find that ridiculous and worthy of derision but when are people going to stop back to the same abusive parties. I don’t believe in the patient approach either. Sure, after 10 years in office Obama is going become more liberal and implement the plans he wanted to but had to do step by step. BNot likely.

It happens now – when Republican approval ratings are ankle-high, or it doesn’t happen ...read more