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This space will update throughout Chris’s trip to China, with photographs, conversations, videos and more. You can read here, or keep an eye on Medium. August 4: Ai Weiwei: At Home With China’s ‘Second Government’ Not perhaps since Alexander Solzhenitsyn...

Visual Arts Highlights The George Tsutakawa fountain at Seattle Central Community College has long been inoperable and damaged by vandalism and graffiti. What used to be an eloquent small spring of eternal hope via the magic of water and sculpture...

Ai Weiwei is coming to Vancouver. But Ai Weiwei isn’t going anywhere. The 57-year-old artist, architect, activist, father, and sometime political dissident is sitting at an ad hoc conference table in his studio in Beijing. He’s been dislodged from his...

***For my current writing project I am spending some time reconsidering the spread of Wing Chun onto the global stage.  As part of that effort I have been rereading some of the earliest literature on the art to see exactly how it was portrayed,...

TWO THINGS occurred to me the other day: first, that something like one in five people on Earth live in China, and second, that I know next to nothing about modern China. In fact, just as most of what I know about New Jersey comes from The Sopranos,...