ISHAM COOK CHINA
Question everything 切問而近思 – Confucius
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Isham Cook
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The curious benefits of neurosis
Crucially, she has the “touch.” Love in her hands.
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My lovely little oriental doll: On yellow fever
On the triteness of the “yellow fever” and “Asian fetish” clichés.
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Massaging the masseuse in Beijing and Bangkok
“Money is just money. But sexual companionship is priceless.”
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The Exact Unknown and Other Tales of Modern China
This pioneering collection of delightfully disturbing tales by one unruly foreigner dredges up comedy blacker than a black hole.
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The Taiwan massage scene
A Taipei masseuse’s rare combination of expert technique and open-mindedness makes for the most intense of massages.
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Yangtze River cargo ship, bats, Agricultural Bank of China (video)
Hypnotic video of cargo ship passing down the Yangtze River in Wuhan at night.
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The ventriloquist’s dilemma: Asexual Anglo travelogues of China
The jostling voices and fraught sexual ambivalence of Anglo-Americans writing about China.
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Philip Glass and Tan Dun
The two most prominent American composers of our time have more in common than it would seem.
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The Chinese art of noise
Putting a song on repeat is as logical to the Chinese as decorating the walls of a room with the same wallpaper.
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How to have fun in China’s disposable cities
Chinese cities happily gut their historical districts to rebuild them into cheesy simulacra which in turn will soon see the bulldozer.
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The Chinese university: A primer for prospective foreign teachers
When I asked students what they learned in their politics classes, they couldn’t even remember the names of the courses.
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The poverty of the institutional imagination: The case of Beijing’s moats and canals
If it reclaimed its water system, Beijing could become a great city of canals.
