Chris Arnade

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Writer at Chris Arnade Walks the World

Author and Writer, Photographer at Freelance

Walking the world, one city at a time. I like turtles, cats, & buses. Subscribe to my Substack: https://t.co/UYb4TBoTDL

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Very low tech high tech travel

6 days ago | walkingtheworld.substack.com | Chris Arnade

Next week I'm going to set off from Milan to try and walk the two hundred miles to Padua. This will be my tenth long-distance trek, which I written about before, and I prefer these move-every-day-with-everything-on-my-back trips, but organizing them is immensely frustrating.
The unbearable lightness of Korean cute

1 week ago | walkingtheworld.substack.com | Chris Arnade

I’ve written about Seoul five previous times (Walking Seoul part 1, part 2, part 3, I could live in Seoul, and Seoul Stopover), so for a more positive perspective, please read those. I love Seoul, which is why I keep coming back, beginning or ending all my Asia trips there. If actions speak louder than words, then Seoul is my favorite city in the world, since I’ve now visited it seven times in the last four years. I love Seoul because it’s functional at a level few global cities are.
Walking Xi'an (China)

3 weeks ago | walkingtheworld.substack.com | Chris Arnade

(My three prior China pieces —Walking Shanghai, walking Beijing, and the more reflective piece, Beijing versus Shanghai.)I arrived in Xi'an worried I wasn't going to be able to eat a proper dinner. My flight from Tashkent landed at nine thirty, which given my prior Chinese experience probably meant I'd get to my hotel as everything was closing. But Xi'an is very different from Beijing and Shanghai.
Walking Tashkent (Uzbekistan)

1 month ago | walkingtheworld.substack.com | Chris Arnade

I try not to judge a city before walking it. Despite that, I was still pretty sure Tashkent would be only a slight variation of Bishkek, since Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan share so much history, culture, and geography. Spending nights on Google Maps, searching the limited street views available for Tashkent, added more weight to my conviction, and so I packed and prepared for a cold, dirty, smog-filled, crowded experience and instead arrived to one of the cleanest, most chill cities I've ever walked.
A German Officer (and Jew) in 1930s China

1 month ago | walkingtheworld.substack.com | Chris Arnade

(I’ve written a little about my childhood, about how our large family traveled extensively. That is why I was born in Spain, went to kindergarten in Nigeria, and spent months in Eastern Europe in 1975.
Beijing versus Shanghai, Pastoralism as key to civilization, and why I travel (again)

1 month ago | walkingtheworld.substack.com | Chris Arnade |Yu Chen

I taped a conversation with Tyler Cowen last week and the first question he asked me was whether I preferred Shanghai or Beijing and I had no answer. It was an appropriate question since I was still jet lagged from having just come from Asia, but what struck me the most during my two short times in China is how much everything seemed the same.
Walking Beijing

2 months ago | walkingtheworld.substack.com | Chris Arnade

(After six days in Beijing, I am even more certain of what I wrote about Shanghai, which is that all cultures are “constructed” largely by a guardian class, either explicitly, as the CCP has been doing in China for decades, or implicitly as in most western nations dedicated to the modern liberalism project.
The Challenge of Masculinity

2 months ago | newsletter.oalannoble.com | O. Alan Noble |Chris Arnade

Two recent articles have had me thinking about what a positive vision for masculinity looks like. The first is entitled “All Men Want to Be Heroes” by , an insightful cultural critic and excellent ambulator. The second is entitled “Defining Healthy Masculinity: A Response to Louise Perry” and was written by Luke Simon. Both articles argue that a positive vision for masculinity is possible and necessary and that heroism has something to do with it, particularly the self-sacrificial hero.
All Men Want to Be Heroes

2 months ago | thefp.com | Chris Arnade

I traveled round the U.S. for 10 years, and one of my most enduring memories is of being in a dive bar somewhere in Ohio when a roomful of guys were trying to break down a door. It started because a woman got upset that her man had gone into the bathroom, locked the door, and that was half an hour ago, and he’s not answering, and sometimes he passes out on the toilet when he’s had too much.
On Cultural Relativism and some books I've recently read

2 months ago | walkingtheworld.substack.com | Chris Arnade

My break managed to last only three weeks, and in a few days I’ll be leaving for Beijing, where I’ll be for six days before spending a few days in Seoul, then returning home. It’s a quick trip, given the distance, but I’m genuinely looking forward to it, despite two sixteen hour flights.

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