Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry — An Artist, An Organizer, A Movie

8/13/2012

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

2/11/2012

It’s time, people of China! It’s time. The Square belongs to everyone. With your own two feet It’s time to …

1/31/2011

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, the novel, made a nice little splash in my reading circles when it came …

10/12/2010

Climate change advances inexorably, like the momentum of the huge glaciers it is destroying. Meanwhile the human race is tap-dancing …

10/9/2010

A Small Rat in Prison for Little Xia a small rat passes through the iron bars paces back and forth …

5/24/2010

Mainland China is an enormous country. With 9.6 million square kilometers it is the third largest country in the world …

9/26/2009

The greater the flood of news the faster we are carried along. We have time to see only the surfaces …