I am still trying to figure out what’s going on – why all of a sudden my material is of such fascination to mainland China. Since summer, my back end stats record that they are now my number one viewership audience and devouring back articles going back 20 years. For the life of me, I am much more curious than flattered. Are these bots? Are they people? What aspect of my writing draws their interest? I still am hoping to find out and perhaps somebody could message me from my contact page and introduce themself since you clearly understand my language and take interest in my culture, I’d love to say hello.
In the meantime, I’m interested in the essays that seem to fascinate this group the most and have been re-reading them to recognize why I seem to be under surveillance. (I’m not myopic or xenophobic just bewildered about your interest.) It has afforded me the opportunity however of reminiscing on some golden oldies which I have now decided to re-highlight, with a view to reigniting conversation on themes I consider are still being generally processed in the public square.
This one in particular I consider a classic and remember preparing the hyperlinked material assiduously to compliment the presented narrative. Ian Boyne’s funeral and the impressive tributes to his iconic life were still very fresh in my mind, and I intended them to be the unspoken theme of the piece, and as I often do with my articles, I left the substantial part of my cogitations hidden between the lines in the hyperlinked material hardly anyone usually clicks on.
So, for s/he who would consider, here again is
