Soldiers Alive – A Novel of the Japanese in China, 1937
For century upon century, from the time of the stories of Gilgamesh (18th BCE), stories of war have been told …
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Xiao Hong — Women in Rural China
Some months ago I saw The Golden Era, a recent movie by Ann Hui about a ground breaking Chinese woman writer …
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry — An Artist, An Organizer, A Movie
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry is a documentary film that’s a three-fer. It will be interesting and instructive, even moving, to …
“It’s Time,” a Poem by Zhu Yufu, Gets Him Seven Years
It’s time, people of China! It’s time. The Square belongs to everyone. With your own two feet It’s time to …
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, the novel, made a nice little splash in my reading circles when it came …
U.S. Called “A Preening Pig”
Climate change advances inexorably, like the momentum of the huge glaciers it is destroying. Meanwhile the human race is tap-dancing …
Liu Xiaobao Wins Nobel Peace Prize
A Small Rat in Prison for Little Xia a small rat passes through the iron bars paces back and forth …
Beijing Coma: A Novel
Mainland China is an enormous country. With 9.6 million square kilometers it is the third largest country in the world …
Muddy River: A Town in China
The greater the flood of news the faster we are carried along. We have time to see only the surfaces …
China Leads as CO2 Polluter
China has clearly overtaken the United States as the world’s leading emitter of carbon dioxide.
China Climate Chaos
The snow and cold in much of China over the past week has been sporadically in the news. It deserves …
China Drought
Just thought you’d like to know… The waters of the Yangtze have fallen to their lowest levels since 1866, disrupting …