georges perce

Book of the month

Species of Spaces and Other Pieces

georges perec is probably one of my favourite writers

just the fact that he writes with such a simplicity

he looks at the most everyday stuff that you overlook

like your room, your curtain your book shelves

'Question your spoon' is really the most effective touch you need to be creative

love and life

been reading this book introduced by my friend Ye, called 爱你就像爱生命。the title seems a bit cliche, it translates as love you as much I love life. the name does not do its justice. it's too beautiful to even have a name I think. it's the letters from Li Yinhe and Wang xiaobo, (李银河和王小波) they were just such beautiful and the most inspiring couple. They are from the Mao's time of China, but they refuse to be one of the numb people of the age, Li is the first female social anthropologist ever in China while Wang become one of the  pioneers of modern Chinese literature. The book is not just about the love they share, but the truth of language and the beauty of life they were working towards. Mordern Chinese literature has been so bleak but they are so not. 

orbit

F.R David and orange boobs

Books of this month

I borrowed books from soas library again, thanks my friend Thi. These books you probably would never find in China.  Written and published in the 40s and 50s , they have narrowly escaped the cultural revolution.

1. Xu Yu, Light 

2. Lao She, City of Cats

educational rubber stamps

very bad habit

I saw this poster once in my friend Sofia's parents house's toilet. I stayed in there for a good 5 minutes to just read through everything that was written on it. I was so intrigued by the fact that bad habits have to be explained in such an extreme way, there is picture of kids stabbing through their hands and kid falling off from the building. How bad are these habits, must be very bad. 

when we still read from up to down

Xi Feng by Bing Xin. 1930s.

a testing book from stationery

 

Pages from 'the Book of the Looms'

West African Narrow-band looms and woman spinning yarns

primitive looms- the backstrap loom and the bend-stick loom 

Great Bear Pamphlets

A Great Bear Pamphlet.  I have read the top one, it's very fun.

08. manifestos/includes work by öyvind fahlström, robert filliou, john

giorno. al hansen, dick higgins, allan kaprow, alison knowles, nam 
june paik, diter rot, jerome rothenberg, wolf vostell, robert watts and
emmett williams

i bought a new book from koenig books. ROTH's advertisements on the newspapers,  

'those pages are so brutal, they are like a gigantic junkyard. so I thought I'd just stick a little tear in them.'

D.R.

story magazines that I found of illustrated faces at the back cover, they are little bundle of cute.

issued in 1924, the book consists drawings of characters' doing and calendars at the front, a short score for the story(which I find exceptional although I don't know how to play), then the stories itself and towards the end of the book where the story is finished, there are hand written letters and more illustrations of women characters, sunbathing, walking under the heavy rain.

the poem

atlas