Blog by Jim James

Tonight the firecrackers are going off with a vengeance as it is the last night of the Spring Festival, and it feels like life is returning to normal both for the Chinese and me which I find, I realize, a bit disconcerting.

‘Western binary logic is predisposed to focusing on the measurable, bivalent...

It has taken a full day of recuperation to manage to write this diary entry, and even then I am not sure that this is how the Romans’ wrote forty – amazingly I have managed to write 40,000 words about my new life here in China and starting the agency here since January 25th, 2006.

Taking stock of 200...