* Via Fancy Brand, prolific tumblelog by a friend of mine: a Tibetan musical score.

* Cardboard sculptures--just amazing, the level of detail.

* Video of a wheelchair dance competition.

* A flash-style piece by shweta_narayan on Strange Horizons, "Charms."

* Also on SH--"Origin" by Ari Goelman, a superhero story that I actually like.

* The 3rd Asian Women's ( Read more... )

* H.E.R.B.--Had Enough Religious Bullshit--amuses me.

* As does this humorous dialogue between an atheist and an agnostic.

* I heard on the radio that Justice Souter is retiring? Here's an article on one possible Obama pick to replace him. Look, he's Asian! Wouldn't that be nice, to have the country's first Asian ever (I think) on the Supreme ( Read more... )

* From Language Log, an interesting analysis of Zhonglish (the specific Chinese-English creole of China, I presume, as opposed to Chinglish of the West).

* Via yhlee, an article on e-publishing in China.

* Tibetans refuse to celebrate the New Year.

* On the atheist community befriending the ex-Muslim. Definitely worth reading from an intersectional ( Read more... )

Fun first: via telophase, a very addictive and simple flash game called People Bucket.

And secondly, the story that is spreading virally across the internet--a bored hacker finds possible proof of Chinese gymnast and Olympic gold medalist He Kexin's age as being, ya know, not 16. I don't know whether this would hold up in court/in front of the IOC ( Read more... )

Compared to the U.S., China seems like a homogeneous country. But in addition to the Han majority, there are 55 different ethnic minorities. One, the Manchu, even ruled China during the Qing dynasty. (During which they discriminated, naturally, against Han Chinese.) When the Qing dynasty was overthrown by the Nationalist party, ethnic minorities ( Read more... )

Thus far, what I've read of IBARW has been excellent but largely U.S.-centric. Of course, I live in the U.S. myself, but I want to point out racism all around the world. I don't feel knowledgeable enough to analyze or elaborate on the situations, but I can present them for your consideration.

• teagrl83 on the burakumin in Japanese society, who are not ( Read more... )

Especially in the U.S., mainstream coverage of racism tends to focus on the black-white divide. I can assure you that Asians are also discriminated against, though perhaps more subtly (and I can't speak for any other group, or even for Asians as a whole); but that's a topic for another time. This post is about racism committed by minority groups ( Read more... )

The Heart of the Dragonby Alasdair Clayre ( Read more... )

What Life Was Like in the Land of the Dragon: Imperial China, A.D. 960-1368by Time-Life Books (Denise Dersin, ed ( Read more... )