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About Me

Currently based in Rural Texas after over a decade overseas, writer / photojournalist Joshua Samuel Brown is the author of Vignettes of Taiwan (Things Asian Press), an anthology of short stories, travel essays, photographs and political meanderings. His features have been published in dozens of publications throughout Asia, including the legendary Beijing Scene, Hong Kong's South China Morning Post and Weekend Standard, Shanghai and Beijing's City Weekend , and the Dim Sum Literary Review (now the Asia Review of Books).Joshua's work has also been published in a strange plethora of publications outside of Asia, including progressive uber-zineClamor, Cat Fancy and the (sadly) short-lived but high quality European leisure magazine Revolve. His political writings appear regularly on the web at www.antiwar.com, the Albion Monitor and several other websites. He is the former Asia corrospondent for the now defunct Rocky Mountain Bullhorn, and his photographs have been published in Elle (France) and Le Monde.Joshua is a long-time contributor to the travel, culture and leisure website Things Asian. He is also a prolific guidebook writer and contributor, having explored, written and provided scintillating copy for a number of guide books on China, most notably the upcoming 2007 Fodor's: China guide. He is currently on the road researching the upcoming Taiwan guide for travel giant Lonely Planet.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Mutants.

My Blog

My Parents Are Litttle People

Hotel reviews are the meat of this gig. No, on second thought, they're more like the rice: Not particularly fun to prepare or consume, but completely fundamental to the project as a whole. Hostels are...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:35:00 GMT

I have always been here before

...Perhaps not ’here’ in the physical sense, as in ’here in the international transit lounge of Narita airport’ (where to my knowledge I’ve never been before,) but here m...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:30:00 GMT

books are my landmark

Around four o’clock I’d had it with lying around under the duvet in my mother in law’s house reading political blogs over wireless, and Laurie was feeling a bit stuck as well. We&rsq...
Posted by on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:18:00 GMT

dream

I'm on assignment, researching a Lonely Planet guide in a country the name of which I do not know. The country is mountainous, filled with jungles; it reminds me of Laos, Cambodia, or Northern T...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:16:00 GMT

Saccharine Zombie Armageddon

Laurie and I spent the last two evenings listening to the audio book version of Max Brook's World War Z. We wound up with the audio version after a fruitless search for the print version in Taipei boo...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:49:00 GMT

I should be kicked in the head

Never let me talk on the phone to anyone before coffee. And please, in Buddha's name, never let me speak Chinese - or even imagine I'm capable of understanding Chinese - before noon.Laurie and I are g...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:07:00 GMT

I am Misunderstood

First off, I need to explain that my intention was never to accompany the children on their field trip in drag. There is, I believe, a time and a place for transvestite experimentation, but a kinderga...
Posted by on Tue, 29 May 2007 07:45:00 GMT

I've had it with the flattery.

I knew it was bound to creep up on me eventually. I'm only glad that I was able to forestall the inevitable until after the LP project was done, lest my resentment come out in my writing. I've lived ...
Posted by on Mon, 28 May 2007 08:15:00 GMT

Travel Advice for War Profiteers

Spiderman 3 has finally opened up here at Penghu's one movie theater, a week after hitting mainland Taiwan; I should be there right now, watching the flick with toes curled in rapt delight, as I'd bee...
Posted by on Fri, 18 May 2007 05:01:00 GMT

All Hail Pee-Pee Paw Kitty

It's been a couple of weeks since I blogged, mostly on account of being deep in the serious grunt work of the project, endless typing, getting files together, editing, and , oh yes, Laurie and I also...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:37:00 GMT