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Dr Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, skeptic, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two. This is the world's #1 archaeology blog according to Technorati.

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Chinese Model Dragon Kit

Back in October I picked up a couple of wooden model kits in a mall near the Drum Tower in Beijing. Yesterday my daughter and I finished the first one, an Imperial Chinese dragon (count the toes), brought to...

Posted on August 25, 2008 8:20 AM • 7 Comments •

Social Nucleus and Accretionary Matter

Once in the early 90s two Stockholm girls went to college to major in Chinese. They became friends: one was half-Chinese, the other had spent part of her childhood in China. They would one day become the Architect and...

Posted on July 27, 2008 10:57 AM • 4 Comments •

Snow White Engrish

Looking closer at this cover of a Chinese pirate edition of Disney's 1937 animated feature Snow White, we find a couple of fine Engrish phrases. "Latinum Edition" is pretty good. But wouldn't you agree that "Still the Fairest of...

Posted on June 21, 2008 12:45 PM • 8 Comments •

A Pox on Both Houses

A reader has pointed out that a propaganda website friendly with the Chinese government and hostile to Falun Gong is quoting a recent blog entry of mine. She suggests that this means that I am aiding the government in its...

Posted on March 22, 2008 4:06 AM • 5 Comments •

Falun Gong Puts On a Song and Dance

The Chinese authorities and Falun Gong: a nasty autocratic regime persecuting a nasty manipulative cult.

Posted on March 7, 2008 8:20 AM • 5 Comments •

Magic Holy Bird Frisbee

Back in October when myself & the family were in Beijing, we spent a Friday at the city's main amusement park. The place was almost deserted, so the kids didn't have to stand in line at all. They would...

Posted on February 10, 2008 8:20 AM • 3 Comments •