Is China Stable?
For friends in the NYC area on June 21, I'll be speaking at the Asia Society with Orville Schell and Rod MacFarquhar, hosted by the New York Review of Books' Hugh Eakins.
FINDING ZEN AND BOOK CONTRACTS IN BEIJING
Not all books in China are pirated, thanks to China’s growing middle class. A good example is the American translator of Chinese poetry Bill Porter (Red Pine) who has become
CHINESE MURDER MYSTERY
Paywall alert, but if you’re a subscriber, I have a piece in the current issue of the NYRB about the Bo Xilai scandal.
CHINESE OFFICIALS WIRETAPPING EACH OTHER
Most attention has focused on the death of a British businessman as the trigger for China’s ongoing political, but in this article in the NYT a colleague and I posit tha
DEBACLE IN BEIJING: THE BLIND LAWYER SAGA
What’s the best course for the blind lawyer, Chen Guangcheng, and what can western countries do when human rights are violated? I take a skeptical look in this New York