Dispatch from Beijing
With Jeff J. Brown
Host Jeff J. Brown loves Mr. Rovics’ music and admires and respects his message. He hopes you will check him out. To help in that endeavor, he picked seven of David’s songs, each one covering a particular theme or subject, as points of conversation.
Here are the songs:
Assata http://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/assata/
Egyptian Rag http://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/egyptian-rag/
Landlord http://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/landlord-2/
Sugihara http://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/sugihara-2/
What Do You Call It http://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/what-do-you-call-it/
Up the Provos http://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/up-the-provos-2/
Judy http://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/judy/
The interview can be heard here:
If you cannot access SoundCloud, listen to the interview or download it as a podcast, at the very bottom of this page.
To learn more about David, here are his websites, plus the promised link to the Al-Jazeera documentary:
His main website: www.davidrovics.com
His SoundCloud station: https://soundcloud.com/davidrovics
To buy David’s music: https://davidrovics.bandcamp.com/
His Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rovics
The Al-Jazeera documentary “Al-Nakba”, about the Palestinian genocide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7FML0wzJ6A. Parts 2, 3, 4 and a panel discussion as #5 follow.
Like to listen on Sound Cloud (the most up to date), Stitcher Radio, iTunes or YouTube? Check out China Rising Radio Sinoland at:
Sound Cloud: https://soundcloud.com/44-days
Stitcher Radio: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/44-days-publishing-jeff-j-brown/radio-sinoland?refid=stpr
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/cn/podcast/44-days-radio-sinoland/id1018764065?l=en
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS4h04KASXUQdMLQObRSCNA
China Rising Radio Sinoland and Jeff J Brown’s social media outlets:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/44DaysPublishing
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/113187076@N05/
Google+: https://plus.google.com/110361195277784155542
Linkedin: https://cn.linkedin.com/in/jeff-j-brown-0517477
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/jeffjb/
Sinaweibo (for Jeff’s ongoing photos and comments on daily life in China, in both English and Chinese): http://weibo.com/u/5859194018
Stumbleupon: http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/jjbzaibeijing
Tumblr: http://jjbzaibeijing.tumblr.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/44_Days
Website: http://www.chinarising.puntopress.com
Wechat group: search the phone number +8618618144837, friend request and ask Jeff to join the China Rising Radio Sinoland Wechat group. He will add you as a member, so you can join in the ongoing discussion.
Want a fun, low cost honorary degree in Chinese Studies? Jeff’s book, 44 Days, will have you laughing while learning and becoming an expert on all things Middle Kingdom. If you live in China, buy it from Jeff directly, by contacting him on his Wechat group, or email, jeff@brownlanglois.com
Jeff J. Brown—TGP’s Beijing correspondent— is the author of 44 Days (2013), Reflections in Sinoland – Musings and Anecdotes from the Belly of the New Century Beast (summer 2015), and Doctor WriteRead’s Treasure Trove to Great English (2015). He is currently writing an historical fiction, Red Letters – The Diaries of Xi Jinping, due out in 2016. In addition, a new anthology on China, China Rising, Capitalist Roads, Socialist Destinations, is also scheduled for publication this summer. Jeff is commissioned to write monthly articles for The Saker and The Greanville Post, touching on all things China, and the international political & cultural scene
In China, he has been a speaker at TEDx, the Bookworm Literary Festival, the Capital M Literary Festival, the Hutong, as well as being featured in an 18-part series of interviews on Radio Beijing AM774, with former BBC journalist, Bruce Connolly. He has guest lectured at international schools in Beijing and Tianjin.
Jeff grew up in the heartland of the United States, Oklahoma, and graduated from Oklahoma State University. He went to Brazil while in graduate school at Purdue University, to seek his fortune, which whet his appetite for traveling the globe. This helped inspire him to be a Peace Corps Volunteer in Tunisia in 1980 and he lived and worked in Africa, the Middle East, China and Europe for the next 21 years. All the while, he mastered Portuguese, Arabic, French and Mandarin, while traveling to over 85 countries. He then returned to America for nine years, whereupon he moved back to China in 2010. He currently lives in Beijing with his wife, where he writes, while being a school teacher in an international school. Jeff is a dual national French-American.
READ MORE ABOUT JEFF HERE
READ MORE ABOUT JEFF HERE