An astonishing and mysterious fact: I’ve just discovered from Google Analytics that over the past 28 days, more visitors to www.jonathanrosenbaum.net came from China (7,696) than from the U.S.(6,756) — even though the U.S. had a higher event count (37,219 over China’s 23,266). The only possible explanation for this that I’ve come up with is that I posted pieces in October about digital releases of a Jia Zhangke box set and Tian Zhuangzhuang’s remake of Fei Mu’s SPRING IN A SMALL TOWN.