Tag Archives: china

Neal Stephenson’s gold farming thriller, REAMDE

Posted on Monday, March 21, 2011 by author-unknown

HarperCollins have
announced the next Neal Stephenson novel, REAMDE, a thriller about gold farming. I sat down with Neal last year when I was touring with my own gold farming book, For the Win, and we marvelled together at the awesome weirdness, fraud… Continue reading →

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The Facebooks of China

Posted on Thursday, January 13, 2011 by author-unknown

April Rabkin |
Fast Company |
Feb 2011
How the social networks that popped up in Facebook’s absence—the site is not available behind the Great Firewall—are changing Chinese culture.
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Book: Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper

Posted on Sunday, June 21, 2009 by Beanbag

Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China by Fuchsia Dunlop. W. W. Norton & Company, 2008. Fuchsia Dunlop gives us an entertaining account of how she fell in love with Chinese food and cooking, as … Continue reading →

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