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Archives for November 2009
China 2009: Teething pains of a superpower
Last month China put itself on show when it celebrated the 60th anniversary of the founding of the PRC with a parade to end all parades in Tiananmen Square. The pride and delight of those lucky enough to get through the security screens to attend was shared by the hundreds of millions of ordinary folk […]
Why I Write – Urbanatomy Shanghai interview with Adam Williams
[…] I don’t play golf so having spent twenty years of weekends lying on sofas watching Zena: Warrior Princess or whatever else Star World had to offer, writing a novel seemed an incremental hitch up from slob-dom. One day a friend and I finished watching a TV version of Conrad’s Nostromo at 3 in the […]




