June 5, 2014
...bike basket, I took a spin around the vast square Wednesday afternoon. Traffic was sparse, and police, soldiers and armed riot police nearly outnumbered pedestrians. But as I passed the...
...bike basket, I took a spin around the vast square Wednesday afternoon. Traffic was sparse, and police, soldiers and armed riot police nearly outnumbered pedestrians. But as I passed the...
...book about just that subject has sparked a wave of nostalgia among some of China's writers, painters and performers. Book designer Zhu Yingchun invited more than a hundred contributors to...
...New York Review of Books) During a television interview in the square I said that, while I couldnt predict, I was confident China would never be the same again. I...
...blue book. The book outlined problems Beijing sees itself facing in internal security including Western nations cultural hegemony threatening Chinas socialist values, terrorism, and the export of Western democracy threatening...
...I considered publishing a book in China, local publishers gradually filled in a road map of the censored world. On behalf of a company in Beijing, an agent wrote, "To...
...out there so I thought I'd highlight some of my favorites, some of which I use in training/orientation courses for folks headed to China. Others I like just because they...
...and his wife endured in their climb to the middle classes, and he wanted to leave space for fun. My wife and I suffered a lot, he says. I dont...
...between her fingers. "Lily, here's your mojito," I say, as I put our colourful drinks on a small wooden table. She briefly smiles at me and continues to talk to...
...latest GDP figures or the first National Security Commission meeting, I thought I'd start with my first impressions of a city that was once home and is going to be...
...now works for Tsinghua Fuzhong, Tsinghua University’s Affiliated High School. He just published a book in China called Creative China about his experiences in Chinese public schools. I spoke to...
...School. He just published a book in China called Creative China about his experiences in Chinese public schools. I spoke to him in Beijing in late March about the future...
...villain, responsible for the fall of the Dynasty" and Chang's book challenges this take. For a brief overview of the book, click here. I have five reasons this book should...