One of China’s best-known journalists, Chang Ping, is in quasi-exile in Germany. In this interview in the NYRB Blog, I talk to him about democracy and growing up as a small child in the Cultural Revolution.
After the FLG crackdown in the 2000s, qigong was largely banned in China. But along with other traditional practices, it’s slowly reviving as I discovered during a ten-day retreat in Zhejiang province. This piece for the New York Review of Books blog gives a bit of the flavor, especially all the oddballs who participated…
The current (2012) issue of the Journal of Daoist Studies has a piece by me on the recent history of rebuilding Maoshan, an important Daoist mountain in Jiangsu province. Above is a picture of the nuns discussed in the article. The article is behind a paywall but contact me if you are interested in a pdf of it.
The recent uprising in Wukan is often seen as a sign of regime instability. But could it be othewise? Here’s a piece on this question in the New York Review.
