THE GOD OF DEVELOPMENT
In this report for the NYT from the boondocks two hundred kilometers south of Beijing, I look at the cost of the government's plan to create a stately, new capital modeled on Washi
CHINASOURCE ON ‘MUST-READ’
In this review for the Christianity-in-China website ChinaSource, founder Brent Fulton writes: “To call Johnson’s work monumental would not be an overstatement. For an
CHANGING HISTORY THROUGH COMICS
In this Saturday profile for The New York Times, I look at an unconventional historian--the comic book artist Sonny Liew.
LXB: THE MAN WHO STAYED
In this blogpost for the New York Review of Books daily, I look at Liu Xiaobo's death in the context of China's century-long struggle for a more pluralistic society