“I WANT TO EXPRESS WHAT’S IN MY HEART”
In another in my NYRB “Talking About China” Q&As, I speak with the devout Buddhist journalist Jiang Xue about her persistance in writing about her country
FROM MAO CONFIDANT TO PARTY CRITIC
In this obituary in the NYT, I describe the life of Li Rui, Mao's personal secretary who later became a convinced democrat.