Bag of Beans » china http://bagofbeans.tsangal.org Caffeine not included. Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:32:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Neal Stephenson’s gold farming thriller, REAMDE http://bagofbeans.tsangal.org/archives/4644 http://bagofbeans.tsangal.org/archives/4644#comments Mon, 21 Mar 2011 07:05:23 +0000 author-unknown Continue reading →]]> (via Boing Boing)

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, adventure, heroism and venality of online worlds and the funny businesses that operating inside of them. REAMDE comes out in September, and I can't wait to read it -- from Neal's description, it sounds like a hell of a book. (Thanks, Mirza, via Submitterator!)

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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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Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper

Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper


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 well as the surrounding culture and history.

Rating: 9/10

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