EVERYONE IS ISOLATED
In this Q&A, my 33rd for the New York Review of Books, I talk to the Chinese non-fiction writer Yuan Ling about the coronavirus and life under lockdown.
THE CORONAVIRUS, CHINA, AND THE WEST
In this oped for The New York Times, I take on a tricky subject: giving props to some of China's reaction to the coronavirus while taking the West to task for not learning from it.
WHICH VOICES FROM THE CHINESE CENTURY?
Who speak for the Chinese people? In this esssay for The New York Review of Books, I look at two groups of Chinese thinkers: those inside and outside the system, and try to answer