SHELTER FROM THE STORM
In this essay for The New York Review of Books I look at a arts and culture space in Xi'an that is managing to keep the spirit of debate alive in China.
A SPECTER IS HAUNTING CHINA
Why the case of a Chinese law professor matters: In this piece for the NYR Daily, I tell the story of Xu Zhangrun, a Chinese law professor who has published a series of remarkable
“AN INDISPENSABLE HISTORICAL DOCUMENT”
I'm honored to have written the introduction to Liao Yiwu's new book, which chronicles the "Tiananmen thugs"--the working-class people who tried to stop the tanks from entering the