TALKING NON-FICTION IN CHINA
I recently attended a remarkable conference on narrative non-fiction in Beijng and came away impressed....
MASTER OF CHINESE MEDICINE
In this Saturday profile for the New York Times, I talk about the work of Paul Unschuld, probably the West’s most famous scholar of Chinese medicine.
NON-FICTION IN BEIJING
What are the conditions of writing non-fiction in China today? Come join our talk at the Horizon Salon.
“THE SONGS OF BIRDS”
In this essay in The New York Review of Books, I review books of poetry by Liu Xia and look at her life under house arrest.
RICHARD WILHELM’S “THE SOUL OF CHINA”
In this insightful review as a Weixin post, the Chinese Christian author Promise Hsu gives an early review of my book in Chinese. Below, my discussion of it and parallels to Richar
THE PEOPLE IN RETREAT?
In this New York Review of Books interview with the filmmaker Ai Xiaoming, we talk about everything from the lack of public intellectuals to the filmmaker Hu Jie
THE PROPHET AND THE PARTY
China’s sometimes-pragmatic approach toward shariah law: my Q&A in the New York Times with Oxford scholar Matthew Erie. Read it here.
A BLESSING FROM HEAVEN?
While copy-editing my new book on China's religious revival, I came across this photo in my files of a 2011 trip I took to the heart of underground Christianity in Xinyang.