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It was 25 years ago this week that I first went to China, which makes it that much more interesting that it coincides with me moving there now. Back in the summer of 1993, I was two years into a ...

https://www.jeansnow.net/2022/05/01/1997/

We landed in Shanghai on Monday, March 28, and as I write this it’s Sunday, April 17, and so the last day of our mandated three-week quarantine period. As I had described in my previous post, o...

https://www.jeansnow.net/2022/04/17/3-weeks-later/

It took much longer than we had initially expected, but here I am, sitting in a hotel room in Shanghai. How long did it take? I accepted the offer for my role at the Ubisoft studio in Shanghai ba...

https://www.jeansnow.net/2022/03/29/in-shanghai/

In April of last year I wanted to watch Zhang Yimou’s Shadow, one of his newer films that I hadn’t seen et, and at the time I decided that I would start by doing a massive re-watch of his wor...

https://www.jeansnow.net/2022/03/22/the-films-of-zhang-yimou/

I’m sharing this later than usual, but yes, this year again (following 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020) I’ve compiled a comprehensive and highly subjectiv...

https://www.jeansnow.net/2022/01/22/favorite-media-of-2021/

After trying to get back into reading books regularly in 2019 by giving myself goals, I’m so happy that for 2021 I was able to reach my goal of reading 20 books. In 2019 I was overly ambitions ...

https://www.jeansnow.net/2022/01/02/books-read-in-2021/

As I’ve been doing for the past three years (2018, 2019, 2020), I devoted October to a lot of horror watching. The main change this year is that I’ve decided to focus only on films, whereas i...

https://www.jeansnow.net/2021/11/01/thrillin-and-chillin-in-october-2021/

I’m happy to say that I’m getting in the PechaKucha swing of things again, getting involved with the PechaKucha Night series in Shanghai in the lead-up to our move there. This is not to say t...

https://www.jeansnow.net/2021/10/30/pechakucha/

Weren’t you supposed to move to Shanghai? I sure was, and I still am, but since accepting my new role at Ubisoft Shanghai back in May (and then starting to work for the studio at the start of J...

https://www.jeansnow.net/2021/09/21/to-move-or-not-to-move/

It certainly took a while (most of this year), but my latest year-based movie marathon (previously 1967, 1968, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, and 1990) is now done. 1981 was cert...

https://www.jeansnow.net/2021/09/04/like-its-1981/