• Are You a Dark Horse?

    By Austin Dean On the first Saturday of June over nine million Chinese teenagers (and their parents) had something in …

    John Brown’s Body Crosses the Pacific

    By Jeffrey Wasserstrom On the last two days in April, I got a pair of emails. Each asked me to …

    Sexpat Memoirs of China: 5 of the Best

    By Paul French Recently “sexpat” made it into the online urban dictionary — Sexpat (noun), a compound of sex and …

    Berlin to Beijing and Back Again

    By Tong Lam Near the northeastern edge of Berlin, in what was once part of East Germany (aka the German …

    The Korea Conundrum and Chinese Soft Power

    By Austin Dean Aarif Lee is a movie star. Born to a mother from Hong Kong and a father with …

    In The Gulou Days

    By Alec Ash Nostalgia is hard to keep up with in China. That old bar, that old neighborhood, that old …

    The Man Who Stayed Behind—At Chinese Central Television

    By Austin Dean Chinese Central Television (CCTV) likely provides more news to more people than any other media organization on …

    Two Views of a Beijing Hutong

    By Christina Larson “Two dogs?” A girl came up behind me wearing the bright blue and red track-suit school uniform …

    Into the Shanghai Trenches: A Psychogeography of Sin in Old Shanghai

    By Paul French Shanghai’s sin districts that catered to foreigners were many and varied. They appeared moments after the city …

    The Case of the Mistaken Maps

    By Austin Dean Maps are at the center of every territorial dispute. My map says this parcel of land over …