Life and travel stories from China – culture, contrast, family ties, and a filmmaker’s eye on a changing world.
On June 24 2009, The Skyscraper Museum in New York City opened China Prophecy: Shanghai, a multi-media exhibition that examines Shanghai's evolving identity as a…
Shanghai Sideways: On a Changjiang Motor Bike! from Jakob Montrasio on Vimeo. www.shanghaisideways.com Discover Shanghai from a sideways look, seated in the side-car of a…
So I spend the last four days in Hunan (湖南) province, shooting some tea mountains near a city called Shimen. We flew from Shanghai's Hongqiao…
My brother's in town during his summer vacation, and that was reason enough to visit a fake market yesterday. He wants to stock up on…
My wife's cousin from Xi'An arrived yesterday. She's with us for a couple of days to brush up her english. My wife told me in…
I was comfortable moving to Shanghai in 2005 because I knew I had work there. Selling machines from Europe to China. Eventually, in 2006, we…
I've got a little cold from all the heat, to be more precise: From all the air conditioners standing everywhere. It's not really healthy to…
Jiajia and I have been in Tianjin on a business trip. Tianjin is about one hour away from Beijing and has not that much too…
While looking through some older posts of mine, I realized that even some chinese people wrote comments. Why? Because I live in Shanghai and sometimes…
No Country For Old Men was this year's winner at the academy awards, telling the story of an aged cop in a Texas that is…
When Ben commented to my last post about the pictures from the movie John Rabe, I just headed over to YouTube to see if anything…
And just when you thought it was over a new story hits the internet! So one of the girls Edison Chen (陈冠希) bedded, Gillian Chung,…
