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Not having been to an electronica festival in quite some time (since South Korea, in fact), a colleague said he was heading down to Wuhan for the weekend for the Vision & Color Festival 2019. Looking at the lineup I saw quite an array of DJs that I’d heard of before and thought it’d be…

I actually wrote this post last year in 2019 but put off publishing it with the idea that I’d somehow make it better. I’ve touched it up a bit but nothing has really changed in this retrospective that celebrates, commemorates, and generally marks a decade of my travels around the world, even though the last…

I’ve mentioned before that I like to keep track of the time I spend studying Chinese in an effort to keep me honest. I think it’s paid off in 2019 as I was able to keep going through the HSK books while also adding more materials to my studies. The amazing thing about 2019 was…

And so it happens already, the end of 2019 and the end of this decade. I can’t say it really hit me or even bothered me until I heard some other people mentioning it: “the end of the decade.” In some respects it’s the same as usual for me, and by that I mean that…

If you were to meet a Mainland Chinese person they would very proudly declare that their country and nation and, most importantly), its people, have 5,000 years of history. When you let that get through your head and realize that everyone has 5,000 years of history, you might start to wonder where they get this…