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Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In is a film that exists in two places at once. On the face of it a classic Hong Kong story of gangsters, urban decay, crime, corruption and explosive violence, the movie follows Chan Lok-kwan, a mainland refugee in Hong Kong who flees from the law in the unregulated chaos... Continue Reading →
When she was a girl San-min saw her father explode. It was the moment he kissed the neon. A shower of sparks – flames all across the corrugated rooftops of the urban village. Old Cantonese walls, alleyways where girls waited for business, roads clogged with tangled-together bicycles, networks of the rubber tendrils of the power... Continue Reading →
So I grew up reading books about World War Two. As a kid my dad and my grandad were always big into military history, and I was a hungry reader; I started reading about The War – the only war ever, the big boy war – because like any kid I liked machines and like... Continue Reading →
“Resolutely prevent not believing in Marx and Lenin and believing in ghosts and spirits.” – The Central Committee of the Communist Party, "Opinions on strengthening the Party’s political construction", Xinhua News, February 27th, 2019 Above an ancient kiln, dating back over a thousand years, was the incongruous shape of a smokestack. Below at the... Continue Reading →
The Secret of Reddit Island What does it mean, I wonder, to be ‘Reddit’? Sometimes I use that site, massively popular social media platform and enormous repository of threads, data, images, and disturbing nonsense. Not much. It’s not a bad place to be sometimes I guess, but my brain is addicted to habit – to... Continue Reading →
“The physical life of an individual person is limited, but the life of the masses united as an independent social-political organism is immortal.… Only when an individual becomes a member of this community can he acquire the immortal social-political life.” – Kim Jong-il -INTRODUCTION: FOOTSTEPS- There are three countries called the Democratic People’s Republic of... Continue Reading →
! lots of spoilers ahead for basically everything metal gear ! “GO AHEAD, SOLID SNAKE!” – Beginnings – Metal Gear 1 and 2 In 1987’s Metal Gear for the MSX, you play as rookie soldier Solid Snake (lmao) of the special forces organisation Foxhound, deployed to the South African military base Outer Heaven on the... Continue Reading →
Last year I read the novel Spaceman of Bohemia, a scifi tale of the Czech Republic’s first astronaut venturing into deep space for a dangerous solo mission, a man doing so trying to atone for his family’s communist past, who runs into trouble and meets an alien and thinks a lot about home. It was... Continue Reading →
“Shanghai Disneyland is authentically Disney and distinctly Chinese.” – Bob Iger There’s many restaurant chains in China that offer Sichuan-style spicy hotpot, and in the middle of dinner at one of them it’s possible you might get a surprise. As you’re choking on a piece of especially peppery beef, reassuring your Chinese friends -who are... Continue Reading →
So there’s this image I really love. It’s a picture taken by an American serviceman in Taipei, Les Duffin, and it depicts a street parade during Taiwan’s National Day back in 1965 – also Double Ten Day, anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution that brought down the Qing Dynasty and begat the Republic of China, whose... Continue Reading →
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