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Written by CornfuciusApril 15, 2018October 14, 2019

The Shenzhen Diaries #6: Little Trouble in Big China (Part 3)

To round out this really terrible day, we were in tow of my all but lost adviser as he shuffled us around Shenzhen according to a plan that were not privy to.  After setting our unknowingly unemployed South African friend up in her sham apartment, we doubled back to meet up with Cockney Guy.  He […]

Written by CornfuciusApril 8, 2018October 14, 2019

The Shenzhen Diaries #5: Little Trouble in Big China (Part 2)

Again, I woke up before six.  Again I headed out to Pingshan with no promise of anything fruitful coming out of it.  I came armed with a book of pronunciations and a full shirt and tie, with a cup of coffee as my guide.  I was on my own and needed to take the hour […]

Written by CornfuciusMarch 25, 2018October 14, 2019

The Shenzhen Diaries #4: Little Trouble In Big China (Part 1)

So I don’t die in Hong Kong, I find my adviser, meet people just like me, realize that we’re going to make it through with the power of friendship, happily Chinese ever after, right?  Well, in the short time that I’ve been out here, we expats (cool name for western foreigners) have a saying for […]

Written by CornfuciusMarch 11, 2018October 14, 2019

The Shenzhen Diaries #3: Why The Fuck Would I Do This To Myself? (Part 3)

I’ve been lost before.  Anyone who has read the past couple installments of this blog probably gets the impression that I have a fair share of emotional lost-ness as well.  But geographically, I’ve been lost plenty of times.  I’ve even been lost in New York and Philadelphia just as easily as I’ve been lost in […]

Written by CornfuciusMarch 6, 2018October 14, 2019

The Shenzhen Diaries #2: Why The Fuck Would I Do This To Myself? (Part II)

Aristotle was considered the godfather of drama two thousand years before Kanye West dropped Yeezus.  One of his keystone concepts he uses to explain the hold that drama and comedy have on us is this idea of ‘catharsis’.  Many of you probably only know about it in the same way that I did, through rigorous […]

Written by CornfuciusAugust 2, 2015October 14, 2019

Fear and the Future, with Writing. An Introduction.

Fear and the future, with writing. An introduction.

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