OUP ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF CHINA
I'm very excited that the Oxford Illustrated History of China has a pub date: Aug 2016
OLD MEDICINE, NEW DEBATE
Awarding the Nobel Prize for medicine to a researcher in traditional Chinese medicine has rekindled a century-old debate over whether the practice is superstitious nonsense or a va
HOPES OF A 3RD-TIER CHINESE CITY
In this “Journal” for the New York Times I look at the strange fate of Baoding. From provincial capital, it declined to a backwater, and now hopes for a reviv