Clik here to view.
China: Five Pounds of Facts
Ian Berry/Magnum PhotosSichuan, China, 2002 No one seems to have measured exactly how old Chinese civilization is, but Endymion Wilkinson can probably give a more precise answer than anyone else. “1.6...
View ArticleWhat’s New About the Empress?
To the Editors: Permit me to offer two points relating to Jonathan Mirsky’s review of Jung Chang’s Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China [NYR, December 5, 2013]. First, Chang is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tiananmen: How Wrong We Were
Catherine Henriette/AFP/Getty ImagesPro-democracy student protesters sit face to face with policemen outside the Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, April 22, 1989 Twenty-five years...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Taking Aim at Hong Kong
Wally Santana/AP ImagesTear gas canisters raining on thousands of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, September 28, 2014 A surge of emotion washed through me on Sunday night as I watched tens of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Okinawa: Why They Chose Death
Keystone/Getty ImagesA Japanese naval lieutenant surrounded by American soldiers in Okinawa, July 14, 1945 Would the Japanese have surrendered without Hiroshima? For decades the question has lingered,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pope Francis’s China Problem
David LevineThe Dalai Lama China-watchers, friends of Tibet, and admirers of Pope Francis were amazed and disappointed last week when the Pope announced he would not be meeting the Dalai Lama during...
View ArticleClik here to view.
China: The Benefits of Persecution?
Chinese middle school graduates (zhiqing), 15 million of whom were ‘sent down to the countryside and up to the mountains’ to ‘learn from the peasants’ during the Cultural Revolution, aboard a Red Guard...
View ArticleClik here to view.
China’s Missing Children: An Exchange
Zhang Xiaogang/Pace BeijingZhang Xiaogang: Bloodline—Big Family No. 3, 1995; from the book Zhang Xiaogang: Disquieting Memories, by Jonathan Fineberg and Gary G. Xu, published by Phaidon To the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Tibet Is Being Crushed—While the Dalai Lama Survives
Tsering Woeser meeting the Dalai Lama over the Internet during a video conversation organized by her husband, the Chinese writer Wang Lixiong, and the Chinese human rights lawyers Teng Biao and Jiang...
View Article
