IS DEMOCRACY CHINESE? NYRB BLOG
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 sm
NOTES FROM A CHINESE CAVE: QIGONG’S QUIET RETURN
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 re
TWO SIDES OF A MOUNTAIN: JOURNAL OF DAOIST STUDIES
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.