AN HONEST WRITER SURVIVES IN CHINA
In the Oct. 11 issue of The New York Review of Books, I have an essay on the Chinese writer Yu Hua, recounting a memorable weekend I spent with him in Hangzhou and how he survives
THE NORTH PEAK
The Asia Society's new website on China, ChinaFile, has published my contribution to Chinese Characters, the new collection of reportage (see box on left of this webpage for more i
THE LOST DECADE?
A while ago, headline like this for a story on China's economy would have seemed outrageous, but I think it's more and more defensible.
“LET’S EXECUTE CONFUCIUS AND LAOZI!”
Yuan Zhiming, who helped create one of the most important TV shows of 1980s China ("River Elegy"), is now one of China's most influential pastors.
WILD GRASS OUT IN CHINESE
It took eight years but my book Wild Grass: Three Portraits of Change in Modern China (Pantheon 2004, Vintage 2005) is out in Chinese.