‘Financial Times’ Journalist Geoff Dyer
Geoff Dyer, author of The Contest of the Century: The New Era of Competition with China—and How America Can Win, covers U.S. foreign policy for the Financial Times in Washington, D.C.; previously he...
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California on My Mind in the Shadow of the Great Wall
If my life so far could be said to have one truly transformative moment, I think it was the intense meeting in early spring 2006 in the village hall after the mayor of Mutianyu village, Comrade Li...
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Dancing My Rootlessness Away
Couples whirled across the floor as the band played music reminiscent of the Rat Pack days. The lights were dim, and strings of small white lights stretched like the spokes of a wheel to corners of the...
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AIDS in the New, Prosperous China
The village where Kang lives is as far removed as one could possibly get from New York, where I now live. It is located outside of Shangcai, a small town of smelly hotels and dirty restaurants, which...
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When Immigration Isn’t a One-Way Street
When my great-grandfather made his way from China to the United States in the 1920s, I doubt he ever imagined his grandchildren and great-grandchildren would make their way back. California was a land...
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Burned by Betrayal and 87 Rounds of Tear Gas in Hong Kong
On Sunday, September 28, 2014, we stood among the estimated 80,000 Hong Kong protestors in the Admiralty neighborhood that hosts the government headquarters, when tear gas began raining down on us. The...
View ArticleNo, You Don’t Have to Sign Up for Mandarin Lessons Just Yet
A Russian, a Korean, and a Mexican walk into a bar. How do they communicate? In English, if at all, even though it’s not anyone’s native language. You can swap out those nationalities for any other...
View ArticleThe Call of Home at the End of Life
“In his condition, you’ll have to take him home business class,” the doctor in Beijing had said. “Bring sleeping pills.” As we boarded our flight back home to Washington, D.C., I steered my dad toward...
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Supermodels in the Forbidden City
by Scarlet Cheng Chinese photographer Chen Man has been witness to the dizzying modernization of China of the last 20 years. She recalls growing up in the quiet hutongs (alleyways) of Beijing, at a...
View ArticleLet’s Toast China’s President, California’s Savior
Dear President Xi Jinping, This is a thank you note from California. Thank you, first off, for sustaining our neighborhoods through these last difficult years. Thank you for keeping wealthy Chinese so...
View ArticleChina Isn’t Afraid of the New Pacific Trade Deal
There’s no doubt the 12 nation Trans-Pacific Partnership currently being negotiated by the Obama administration is a political hot potato. Will the trade deal destroy or create more American jobs?...
View ArticleWill China be Uber’s Waterloo?
Is China changing Uber? China has proven a humbling speed bump in Uber’s quest to dominate the mobilized sharing economy worldwide. In China, a market Uber has prioritized for expansion, Uber is in the...
View ArticleInitial of Creation, and / The Exponent of Earth—
In that direction we Left Pai on foot two days ago, our guide and muse A hand-drawn unscaled map, the town of refugees Our main goal, Chinese conversation luring us. Water already gone and bodies...
View ArticleIs China the Next Mexico?
When I served as Mexico’s ambassador to China, I was often asked the wrong question: Is Mexico the next China? The better question is whether China is becoming the next Mexico. Of course, it is hard to...
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There’s No Word for ‘Gluttony’ in Chinese
I had just consumed a pitcher of beer along with too many Chinese-German sausages at the Tsingtao Beer Museum, when I received the email from an editor asking if I had some thoughts about gluttony in...
View ArticleHow Do You Say Laissez-Faire in Chinese?
China’s Communist leaders are struggling to embrace one of the pesky truths of the capitalist system they have adopted (and adapted) with such success: Markets don’t just go up; sometimes they go down....
View ArticleIs China Pulling the Plug on Overseas Investment?
Every time China appears ready to take (or retake) its rightful place in the global economy, a reminder comes along that this isn’t just another country willing to abide by the conventions and dictates...
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Why Urban Poverty Is More Desperate in India and More All-Consuming in China
The first thing that struck me was that the streets were spotless, polished clean with the swing of hundreds of broom strokes a day. Women squatted in front of their corrugated iron homes, wearing...
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My Antidote to L.A’s Madness Lies Less Than 100 Miles Outside the City
Driven. Rushed. Anxious. These adjectives describe me and many of the nearly 4 million people with whom I share the malls, freeways, and surface streets of Los Angeles. Some days, it doesn’t take much...
View ArticleHow Yahoo Destroyed Its Value
On July 25, Verizon announced plans to buy Yahoo’s internet assets plus some real estate for less than $5 billion in cash. Yahoo, which went public in 1996, had spent approximately $20 billion...
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