January 2013 – Maura Elizabeth Cunningham

Blue Skies Smiling On Me

I probably overdid it a bit this morning. I was so excited by today’s good weather that I laced up my sneakers and headed out for a walk. A really long walk. Every time I thought about turning at the next intersection and looping back to my apartment, I decided to go just a littleContinue reading “Blue Skies Smiling On Me”

The House of Bo Will Rise Again (Maybe)

Yesterday marked exactly ten months since Bo Xilai’s spectacular fall from grace on the Ides of March last year. His eventual fate is still unclear, though last week the Xinhua News Agency issued a terse announcement that Bo, the former Party Secretary of Chongqing, had been “handed over to judicial authorities,” meaning that he’s headedContinue reading “The House of Bo Will Rise Again (Maybe)”

Change of Pace

The Urbanatomy website used to run a series of interviews with China-connected authors under the title “Why I Write” (unfortunately, it seems that the archive is no longer online). But the series title was actually a little misleading: authors not only answered questions about why they wrote, but also how. Almost invariably, they cited theContinue reading “Change of Pace”