Into the mountains - Not? This August, quite some things didn’t go as planned. I cannot tell much about it yet! But wow, never a dull day at the Prop Roots Center - nor on our somewhat
Trip to the hospital July 26th, 2016 Didn’t I say I should publish my notes more often, at best day by day? So here I am, sitting in the bamboo hut, on a sunny afternoon. The
Jackie Chan is coming While we’re not even sure whether we’ll survive this summer (MORE NEWS FORTHCOMING), we have already stumbled into another big project. Li Yang and I have been locked in long discussions
NL Wat ik ZELF nou wil No worries, there will be plenty of new articles in English. Soon. Zoals in de vorige post vermeld had ik dus een tweeluik geschreven op weer een andere blog-site: “Trefpunt Thailand”. Het eerste
NL Nieuw Trefpunt In Dutch this time, just to divert some readers towards another site that is purely in Dutch. Meanwhile, I’m trying to get my English writing going! Always too much to write about,
documentary (SoL 4) Summer of Life - Last episode ![ Part 4, the last part for now (I'll give the link below) of the documentary series Summer of Life /景颇夏天 by director Xie Mengqian, slightly differs in style from last week’s Part
(SoL 3) Want to see how I live? Today a link (below) to the NEXT episode of the new documentary series “Summer of Life” /景颇夏天 by director Xie Mengqian. Whereas Parts 1 and 2 focused on the adventures of our students,
documentary (SoL 2) Michael Jackson and the Shaman Today part TWO (link below) of the documentary series Summer of Life 景颇夏天 by Xie Mengqian (c), about another selection of our students, boys this time. The protagonists of this episode are two
documentary (SoL 1) Summer of Life 景颇夏天 documentaries on-line! It is just a matter of fact that we DO attract a lot of media attention. Just by being what we are and doing the things we do: our nonprofit organization Prop Roots
Fresh noodles, gossip, heroine Every five days is Market Day around here and from now on I will try to keep to a similar rhythm for posting on this blog. On market day, the local farmers go
Prop Roots Puppetry for Grandpa How good it was to be back in the lush and green Loilung village, my “second home”. I have spent many years in this Zaiwa/Jingpo ethnicity village, if I count up all
China, NGO, nonprofit, art, Jingpo, Zaiwa, education, ethnic minorities, drugs, Yunnan Spring Camp 2014, opening with big Manau dance! A large group from Tsinghua International Middle School in Beijing came visiting our Prop Roots center. They came to meet the local Zaiwa/Jingpo kids, that appeared in large numbers. It was a
China Spring and Summer Camps A large group of children, from an international high school in Beijing (the Tsinghua University Affiliated Middle School), is coming in just a few days, for a joint camp together with the local
China the Nature of Reality The TV crew has left, after spending almost a month with us here in our home and project center, following or interviewing us every day. (So that’s my excuse for not posting
China Flashback to the 1st documentary about us Within a few days, a TV film crew is coming to stay at our home and Prop Roots center. They were already here last year, when they mainly filmed some of the local
China NL = Nederlands?! Grassroots vs. Über-Kapitalisme My first contribution to China2025, the crowdblog for Dutch-linguals professionally affiliated to the China. Posts in Dutch, my native language, are marked with "NL". Planet Zaiwa was eigenlijk
China 1st POST - Challenges! Life is full of challenges. Sometimes we deliberately seek them. My wife Li Yang and I have chosen for a very special and much insecure way of life. We founded our own grassroots