October 2011
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You all look the same to me
Prior to boarding the Cathay Pacific flight at Heathrow, the customs official flipped through my papers and dryly remarked “now that’s a pretty well used passport!” I’d never paid heed to the fact before, but he was right. Beginning as a bumpkin who had remained within Australia’s borders for seven years and never visited Europe till 2004, I somehow managed to almost...
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Reflections on my first day in Beijing
Before I arrived in Beijing, there was a period of a couple of days where I was feeling extremely apprehensive about returning to China. I had last visited Shanghai at the end of 2007, when my process of working was far less disciplined (it was almost completely free-form to be honest: turn up at a random location, walk around for several hours without any map or any idea I where I was going and...