By Jeffrey Wasserstrom I recently caught up by email with Kerry Brown, a prolific writer on Chinese affairs who has held …
June 2016
Watching Our Words: on Brexit
By David Taylor For many of us in the UK the past few days have been painfully difficult. Among those …
Isabella Bird Bishop: Pioneering Female Traveler and Prototypical Westerner in Korea
By Colin Marshall Korea scholar Matt VanVolkenburg writes one of my favorite blogs on Korean society and culture, Gusts of …
The “Inspector Chen” Poems: A Look at the Man and His Verse
By Qiu Xiaolong As fans of the “Inspector Chen” novels know, the Shanghai detective not only excels at solving crimes and …
Bright Lies, Big City: Korean Authors and Seoul
By Charles Montgomery The Korean relationship with big cities, particularly Seoul, mixes love with a strong undercurrent of hate. The …
Outliving Dad
By Eric Lax When my father died, in 1976, he had lived his allotted three score and ten years, plus …
Jason Y. Ng’s Street-Level View of Hong Kong’s Year of Umbrellas
By Susan Blumberg-Kason Before my visit to Hong Kong in mid-October 2014, I was worried. The Occupy Movement was two …
Korea, Where Book Podcasts Draw Standing-Room-Only Crowds
By Colin Marshall If you want a seat, you’ve got to get there early — really early. Even then, plenty …
‘Ten Years’ — More than Just a Lesson in Despair
By Jeffrey Wasserstrom The more that I heard about the Hong Kong independent film Ten Years during the first months …
“When We Were Kings”
By Peter Rainer Excerpt from Rainer on Film: Thirty Years of Film Writing in a Turbulent and Transformative Era (Santa Monica …