The Expo
They arrived when the sea was swelling, threatening to sweep the old world back with it.
View ArticleGuernica Movies: 5+5
Life in a Chinese artists’ colony through the eyes of the local taxi driver
View ArticleThe Hunger Bride
“Go home and pray to be forgiven,” she cried. “If you don’t pray now, you know what waits for you.”
View ArticlePeter Van Buren: Edward Snowden’s Long Flight
What a whistleblower thinks a fellow whistleblower might have thought.
View ArticleRichard Falk: Geopolitical Winds Blow in China’s Direction
With intervention out of favor, American foreign policy is returning to “the great game” of great power politics.
View ArticleThe Making of “Make It New”
Ezra Pound’s slogan was itself the product of historical recycling.
View ArticleTaxcast: On Tina Turner, China, Holland, and Muammar Qaddafi
In this month's Taxcast: Holland's recent worries about its bad reputation and the similarities between Tina Turner and Muammar Qaddafi.
View ArticleBrothers in Arts
Evading Chinese censorship, the Gao Brothers challenge authority through sculpture, painting, performance, and photography.
View ArticleMichael Klare: Surviving Climate Change
Climate change may destroy us, but not before we see a green energy revolution by the people.
View ArticleRobert Reich: JP Morgan Chase, the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act, and the...
Why hiring China's "princelings" amounts to business by bribery.
View ArticleEmily Strasser: Signal Fires on the Tibetan Plateau
Free Expression: What happens to a tethered windhorse? To a prayer stuck in your throat? On self-immolation in Tibet.
View ArticleXiaolu Guo: Why Do We Still Pretend We Are Free?
Free Expression: The writer and filmmaker on her encounters with commercial censorship.
View ArticleJustice in China
Emily Parker talks with Yiyun Li about self-censorship in China, the line between fact and fiction, and whether it’s possible to create good art under a repressive regime.
View ArticleOn Freedom of Speech 论言论自由
Excerpts from Chinese dissident Hu Ping's seminal 1980 essay, translated for the first time into English.
View ArticleAlexis Dudden and Jeffrey Wasserstrom: History as Weaponry
What World War I analogies reveal about the current tensions between China and Japan
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