When Richard Nixon came to Beijing in the winter of 1972, China was still in the throes of the Cultu ...
View quoteBy the Nineties, so many people were moonlighting and creating their own professional identities tha ...
View quoteIn my fifth year in Beijing, I moved into a one-story brick house beside the Confucius Temple, a sev ...
View quoteConfucius - or Kongzi, which means Master Kong - was not born to power, but his idiosyncrasies and i ...
View quoteWhen I moved to Beijing in 2005 to write, I was accustomed to hearing the story of China's transform ...
View quoteWe binge on instant knowledge, but we are learning the hazards, and readers are warier than they use ...
View quoteSeventy years after China emerged from the Second World War, the greatest threat facing the nation's ...
View quoteI didn't expect to find much visible trace of the American war in Vietnam. The Vietnamese are too ha ...
View quoteThere was a docudrama that was made, called 'The Death Of A Princess,' which was about a true story ...
View quoteAnalysts, scholars, business people, diplomats, and journalists involved with China spend so much ti ...
View quoteTo my surprise, the more I searched about Qi Xiangfu, the more I found of a life lived partly online ...
View quoteThere's a national ambition, a collective, in a sense, political ambition, which I think is the thin ...
View quoteWalking, it turns out, is a sublime way to get to know people in China. They're used to meeting stra ...
View quoteWhen I lived in Beijing in 1996, it was a horizontal city. If you wanted to go out for a burger, if ...
View quoteFor years, China expected foreign companies not to publicly voice their complaints about hacking or ...
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