Subject: China

• Trash Talking

  Just before dawn this morning I lay awake trying to talk myself into getting up. There would be, I promised myself, a newspaper waiting in the driveway, a choice of toast or bagel. My favorite coffee mug would be hanging from a hook. I may even turn the heat on. Then I heard it -- the shudder of an old shopping cart being pushed up our hill, its wheels creaking until they momentarily stopped at someone's trash can. (Image from Fotosearch.com)We hear the noise garbage scavengers make every aftern

  December 12, 2008

• Bollywood Goes East — Far East — for Chandni Chowk to China

  Kung fu pandamonium

  January 15, 2009

• Questions Still Surround Oliver Stone's W.

  Winner or loser? Original or borrowed? Investors or Chinese gangsters?

  October 30, 2008

• Full Moon Cakes

  September 11, 2008

• China's First Gold: Carbon Dioxide Emissions

  Air apparent: a photo essay from Beijing and beyond

  August 14, 2008

• Eastern Promises: Asian Pacific Film Festival

  Documentaries dominate, including Against the Grain and Up the Yangtze

  May 1, 2008

• Movie Reviews: Body of War, Four Minutes, Shotgun

  Plus, Baby Mama, Deception and other April 25 releases

  April 24, 2008

• Movie Reviews: Bra Boys, Super High Me, Alexandra

  Also, Young @ Heart, Remember the Daze and more

  April 10, 2008

• Frontline: On Our Watch

  The sins of inaction

  November 15, 2007

• A Heavy Load

  The ports say they have a plan for cleaner, safer trucks. But do they have a plan for the truckers?

  July 26, 2007

• Da Camera and Dim Sum

  Melody of China performs at Empress Pavilion

  April 26, 2007

• Academy Award-Nominated Documentary Shorts

  Including Recycled Life and The Blood of Yingzhou District

  March 1, 2007

• Miles From Home

  August 31, 2006

• The Wrath of Pong

  Putting down the Kalashnikov, picking up the Joola blade

  May 18, 2006

• Good Night and Good Luck

  A baker’s dozen of highlights from a year of meta-media madness

  April 27, 2006

• Capital News

  January 19, 2006

• Good Night, and Good Luck

  A baker’s dozen of highlights from a year of meta-media madness

  January 5, 2006

• Low Prices, Widespread Torture

  December 8, 2005

• Vacation From Reality

  December 8, 2005

• Grand Illusion

  August 18, 2005

• Feeding Boys, Ayaya

  July 21, 2005

• Female Trouble

  July 7, 2005

• Chinese

  June 23, 2005

• The Big Pull

  March 10, 2005

• Crossings

  March 10, 2005

• 'I Live in Jiang Hu'

  December 2, 2004

• Losing Our Shirts

  December 2, 2004

• Cold War

  August 26, 2004

• Black Mischief

  March 18, 2004

• Port in a Storm

  March 27, 2003

• A Bricklayer's Story

  October 24, 2002

• Boy-Oh-Boy

  November 8, 2001

• See No Evil

  February 22, 2001

• Supersize It!

  June 22, 2000

• Clinton's Wedge

  June 8, 2000

• It’s Chinatown

  May 11, 2000

• After Seattle

  March 30, 2000

• Stand Up, Al

  March 2, 2000

• Who Were Those Kids?

  December 16, 1999

• Father Knows Less

  June 3, 1999

• Sheep Thrills

  May 27, 1999

• Next Time, It Might Kill You

  February 11, 1999

• Disney's Asia Minor

  June 25, 1998

• Get Your Total Solar Eclipse On

  Photo via NASA blogSince the total solar eclipse does not have a publicist, I wanted to remind you that it is happening today. (That would be Wednesday if you're in China, which, due to the time difference is effectively Tuesday night in the US. I know. It's confusing.) At over six and a half minutes, it will be the longest solar eclipse of the 21st century. View it here at NASA's site. Click through to China's National Astronomical Observatory. China will be live webcasting the eclipse as it ha

  July 21, 2009

• Pour Favor: Tea Exhibit at the Fowler Museum

  Most of us tend to think of tea as being calming, peaceful, quiet. Not Beatrice Hohenegger. For the past 10 years, the author of Liquid Jade: The Story of Tea from East to West (St. Martin's Press) has traveled the globe studying the rich, often troubling history of the stuff. She's been to the enormous tea plantations of Assam, India, and seen the dire conditions of the workers. She's studied how and why the tea trade triggered the vicious Opium Wars between England and China in the 19th c

  August 14, 2009

• Journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee's Actions Questioned

  Laura Ling and Euna Lee, the two L.A.-based journalists who work for the Al Gore-founded Current TV channel, were greeted as heroes earlier this month when they arrived in Burbank after Bill Clinton arranged for their release from North Korean captivity. The Communist regime had charged the reporters with entering North Korea without visas and other charges, and  sentenced them to 12 years in a labor camp. They were out after five grueling months.Now, however, the women's actions are being

  August 24, 2009

• Take Back the Tap: Santa Monica Farmers Market Offers Free, Clean, Drinkable Tap Water

  Photograph © China Photo/Reuters/CorbisThat's a lotta bottles.​With thanks to Chance of Rain for tipping us off, it looks like the Santa Monica Farmers Market is trying to set the tone for environment friendly water consumption, with a little help from Food and Water Watch. Yesterday, they handed out free cups of water to shoppers, as they moved toward debunking the myth that filtered tap water is somehow more dangerous than bottled water. Next time, though, they won't be handing out cup

  August 27, 2009

• Today in Photographs: August 28, 1939

  ​Longshoremen and their supporters who back China picket a labor arbitrator's ruling punishing dockers who refused to load scrap metal onto Japanese ships in San Pedro.LA Herald-Examiner/LAPL

  August 28, 2009

• Tea Exhibit

  September 10, 2009

• The Noodle Road: A Pasta Film and Tasting

  Watch a documentary on noodle history.​That quick pasta dish you toss together for dinner? It originated thousands of years ago in some unknown kitchen in China. This Thursday, you can learn how pasta came to be and taste some yourself at at a screening of the KBS documentary The Noodle Road at the Korean Cultural Center in Los Angeles. The KBS production team spent two years tracing the spread of noodles throughout Asia, Europe and the Middle East, filming in 10 countries. With the aid o

  November 17, 2009