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Dr. Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, skeptic, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two.
Category: NOIBN
If you look up an organisation on Wikipedia, then the article will be pretty useless if it's written by people with any sort of passionate relationship to that organisation. If they hate it, if they love it, they're not the right people to write about it.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 26 Comments •
Category: China
Courtesy of my niece-in-law in Hangzhou, here's a piece of plastic hong shao rou, 紅燒肉, red braised pork, intended as a cell phone decoration. Yum!...
Posted by Martin R at 4:21 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: China
Happy Chinese New Year, everybody! Today is the first day of the year of the Ox according to the farmers' calendar. The Rundkvist family is heavily secularised, to the extent that I have let slip almost all Western observances...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: Language
In Chinese, polite figures of speech mark a distance.
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Category: China
I bought two wooden model kits in Beijing last October. The kids and I finished the Imperial Dragon in late August. Since then, my daughter and I have worked on the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests (祈年殿) which...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: China
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 by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: China
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 by Martin R at 10:57 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Humour
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 by Martin R at 12:45 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: Skepticism
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 by Martin R at 4:06 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: China
The Chinese authorities and Falun Gong: a nasty autocratic regime persecuting a nasty manipulative cult.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: China
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 by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
Proto-history offers a powerful lure to all students of the past.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 16 Comments •
Category: China
Came to Luoyang in Henan province on the Yellow River by train yesterday morning.
Posted by Martin R at 4:01 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: China
Ostentatious 19th century Qing architecture is rather amply preserved around the city centre.
Posted by Martin R at 3:05 AM • 3 Comments •
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