On the streets of Hong Kong in 1938
Hong Kong in 1938 was smaller in scale, more human, much poorer and more unjust
Lijiang, China as it used to be
One of the world’s most exquisite towns, now lost, captured on video the very year I first saw it
Li Xiaodong’s modest, radical architecture
The New York Times misses why a small library in rural China represents a great hope for the country
Bruce Lee: Real? Fake? Whatever: I believe
Bruce Lee plays ping pong and lights matches with uncanny accuracy
An ex-Googler pokes China in the eye
An insider explains why tech companies can’t win in China and what it costs them to try
The ‘unexpected’ China slowdown was entirely foreseeable
Analysts profess surprise at the China slowdown that I saw out the car window in Fujian a year ago
Vietnam Chante revolutionary songs, Paris, France, c1967
Employing everything from martial chants to opera in support of revolution in Vietnam
The China boom is over. That could be good
Will young Chinese respond to slower economic growth by going into the arts? Or politics?
The last moment in history to see the tulou
The future is grim for China’s unique, centuries-old communal housing
What to make of this 19th C. Arab-Chinese-Peruvian portrait?
Long distance cultural exchange began much earlier than we sometimes imagine
More evidence the China building boom is ending
But here are the astounding numbers on what they’ve built
Macau’s architectural legacy
A schizophrenic policy of sacrificing new land to preserve old buildings
Newsreel: ’67 War and party balloons for Red China
Newsreels declare: US neutral in ’67 War in the Middle East and Red China fears party balloons
An art opening at Experimenta in Hong Kong
Unusually for Hong Kong, something unexpected might happen
You are not alone
Artist Corinne Vionnet captures the banality of seemingly unique travel experiences
The great China infrastructure build-out is almost over
China’s building boom has been going on for 20 years; a recent visit to Fujian shows that’s ending.
Little Red Book by Mao Tse-tung, second edition, 1967
The rare second edition of Mao’s famous book, with a foreword by Lin Biao before he fell from grace
Chemistry notebook, People’s Republic of China, 1976
A 1976 notebook found in Xiamen begins with Maoist political slogans and ends with chemistry notes
What happens when Chinese street artists draw a foreigner’s portrait
Street artists in China draw my portrait, though not well