Chronicle of a Blood Merchant is the second book I have read by Yu Hua, and though perhaps not as moving as To Live, Chronicle shows, unequivocally, why Mr. Yu belongs to the upper echelon of China’s most celebrated contemporary writers. The story of Xu Sanguan and […]
Read MoreCOVID-19: Stay at home, they say. But what about the homeless? Published in Medium – 25 March 2020. The Coronavirus outbreak is rewriting the rules of social living across the world. Amid sharp increases in the number of infections and deaths, whole countries have enacted draconian rules […]
Read MoreHere some of the photos I took between 2013 and 2016 at some of the events organised by the Sydney Democracy Network. In some of these events, I was an invited speaker and in some others, I was part of the organising committee, while I worked […]
Read MoreHere some of the photos I took in Hanoi, in February 2015, during Democracy and Development models in Asia Democracy and Development models in Asia: Theory and Practice, an International Conference organised by the Sydney Democracy Network (University of Sydney) and the Social Science University of […]
Read MoreIn Search of the Good Citizen The Networked Citizen pp 9-18 Cite as: Navarria G. (2019) In Search of the Good Citizen. In: The Networked Citizen. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore First Online: 29 October 2019 Abstract This chapter introduces the concept of citizen and briefly discusses its various interpretations. It […]
Read MoreHere some of the photos I took at All That Jazz, a club in the Itaewon district, in Seoul, South Korea. Here is a sample of their music (video from their perfomance at CLUB K SEOUL 2018/02/20 – Club K is owner of the video)
Read MoreHere some of the photos I took on August 24, 2019, at Exeter Street Art Festival (ESAF)
Read MoreStranger Things 3: flawed, overstretched and yet unmissable Fun, touching, sweet, and just plainly entertaining as all fans hoped for. [Note: the following review contains only mild spoilers of Season 3 of Stranger Things]. Published in Medium – 9 July 2019. Eleven, Mike, Dustin, Lucas, Steve, […]
Read MoreThe Vegetarian by Han Kang From the book description: Before the nightmare, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary life. But when splintering, blood-soaked images start haunting her thoughts, Yeong-hye decides to purge her mind and renounce eating meat. In a country where societal mores are […]
Read MoreShōgun by James Clavell My rating: 5 of 5 stars Last spring, I decided to re-read Shogun by James Clavell. I was curious to see what I would think of it, as adult. As a teenager I had loved it. To my surprise, 30 years later, […]
Read MoreNight Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko My rating: 2 of 5 stars Mildly amusing, a mix of Harry Potter meets Sam Spade meets Lord of the Ring, but it reads mostly as a very banal story both in form and substance to leave any lasting memory. Originally […]
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