Dan Wang

@danwwang

A materials culture and the secure transport of light: Writing about globalization and technology at Gavekal Dragonomics.

Hong Kong
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Joined December 2010
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Apr 17

    I blog: Imperial history and classical aesthetics. (I ask a few questions I find interesting in imperial history, and then discuss an essay I really liked by Simon Leys.)

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    Jul 3

    I look forward to the mornings and the exciting possibilities in the kitchen. Today's breakfast: sorghum canjeelo topped with homemade yoghurt, cheese; mango; chia seeds, and honey. It gets better every day.

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    Jun 30

    Pictures of a Russian meteorologist who spent 30 years at an Arctic meteorology base. Photos by Evgenia Arbugaeva (search her name to see many more beautiful images)

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  4. Jul 3

    "Much of what social critics decry as rampant individualism in America is really rampant crowd behavior. It is herds of people busily declaring that they are not part of the herd." and "There's nothing a contrarian crowd hates more than a real contrarian."

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  5. Jul 3

    You may think that you're compliant with GDPR; but are you sure your desk isn't too messy? "His company operates a strict clear-desk policy, enforced by auditors who visit offices at night to take photos of desks with documents left lying around."

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    Jul 3

    My Conversation with Juan Pablo Villarino, the world's greatest hitchhiker,

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    Jul 2

    jfc

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  8. Jul 2

    It shouldn't take bombings to reduce development restrictions: "local areas which were more heavily bombed during the Blitz have more permissive development restrictions, more office space, and consequently higher worker densities today."

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  9. Jul 1

    Chongqing has the most gorgeous dusk scenes I've seen anywhere. I took the photos, credit for the cyberpunk pictures goes to the artist behind Hello Chongqing:

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  10. Jul 1

    The city is built into steep banks at the confluence of two major rivers, with mountains all around. Every street is curved and hilly, you're never far from vertiginous steps, nor the aroma of hotpot. Anyway, here's a train entering an apartment building.

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  11. Jul 1

    Chongqing is bizarre, like something out of a Neal Stephenson novel. Let's update our reference for "weird Asian city" to Chongqing.

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  12. Jun 30

    The fun part of Sichuan food is that the tingle builds up, accelerating the excitement and making you want to eat faster, while your capacity for speech gradually declines. It’s the perfect cuisine to engage in the cultivation of silence.

    Confessing unpopular opinion #1: If the food is good, we should eat meals in perfect silence. Save the socializing for drinks or coffee afterwards.
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    Jun 24

    I guess I'm in the wrong neighborhood 🙊

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  14. Jun 28

    I'm reading Dream of the Red Chamber, and am struck that both the ladies and the maids spend all day weaving. : "counties with premodern cotton-textile production were much more likely to think that women were just as competent as men."

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    Jun 27

    .-- "Cotton-textile production in China catalysed a very high level of female earnings for almost 500 years." via

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  16. Jun 27

    And I wonder if the recent stories on elite college admission strengthen that pitch. It's less about the education, more about the lack of these mysterious social forces that make it difficult to join the country's elites in a predictable way.

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  17. Jun 27

    One unmentioned factor I hear about: For whatever reason, Chinese-Americans have a hard time climbing up to top management in the US (while Indian-Americans have more success). Few become the CEO of a company s/he did not found. Pitch: there's no such corporate ceiling in China.

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  18. Jun 27

    Here’s a nice piece by on Chinese efforts to recruit technical talent (mostly Chinese-Americans) from overseas:

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    Jun 25

    😂

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  20. Jun 25

    Not just a good conversationalist, is a consistently funny person in texts

    The reason I've found conversation more valuable than reading recently (inspired by my chats with , to name one) is that reading is a uni-directional and often brittle bundle of information flow. Conversation adapts in real-time.
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    Jun 25

    In light of the latest news about curbing China's access to U.S. tech, you should listen to our recent Odd Lots podcast with about China's drive to be a tech powerhouse by 2025

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