Over at The American Prospect, I have a piece up based on the research I did while studying political liberalism in China (courtesy of a fellowship from the U.S. Fulbright program). As part of my research, I interviewed liberal scholars, … Continue reading
Lilia Shevtsova has an essay in The American Interest arguing that American liberals, and Western liberals in general, are no longer a model for liberal reformers around the world: The way liberal democracies are currently trying to revitalize themselves raises … Continue reading
Danwei has an interview with Sidney Rittenberg, the first American citizen to join the Chinese Communist Party. Rittenberg lived in China from 1944 to 1975, and spent the time alternating between serving as an adviser to China’s leaders and serving … Continue reading
It’s the first time a Chinese architect has been awarded the prize. From NPR: Wang started drawing as a two-year old boy in Beijing. He drew on everything — from books to the walls of his house in a crowded … Continue reading
Francis Fukuyama has a new essay out arguing that the world needs a new ideology to reinvigorate and protect the middle classes of the world’s ailing liberal democracies: …Politically, the new ideology would need to reassert the supremacy of democratic … Continue reading
The Korea Herald, a Korean English newspaper, has an article examining some arguments for and against a modern Confucian ethic. Tu Weiming, a prominent Confucian scholar, comes out swinging: ’It offers Korea the ‘core values’ that will make her a … Continue reading
Yesterday the New York Times published a brief essay by Liao Yiwu on his escape from China via the country’s Western border. Liao, whose experiences the Times has chronicled on several occasions, had this to say: For a writer, especially one who … Continue reading
Qingdao is fine, but it still isn’t developed enough – the salaries aren’t high enough…I like it more than Beijing, but it’s not as good as Shanghai. Or America, which is clean and rich. Development isn’t a bad thing, but … Continue reading
Qingdao is a beautiful place, but the people aren’t beautiful…since the reform and opening, people have become more distant from each other emotionally; the space between them has gotten wider. In the past, you could walk up the hills in … Continue reading
