Month: February 2025
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Weekly Wanderings: February 23, 2025

Thanks for joining me this week. New Goodreads Reviews Recommendations China Stories Eliot Chen, “DOGE’s Latest Target is Seen as a Gift to the CCP” Michelle Kuo, “Found in Translation” Grace Marion, “In Taiwan, a Growing Cohort of ‘Preppers’ Readies Itself for an Uncertain Future” Dalia Parete, “Feminists Without Borders” — interview with Jinyan Zeng,…
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Weekly Wanderings: February 16, 2025

No links or recommendations from me this week, for two reasons: BUT, today is the 20-year anniversary of my first arrival in China so I’ve decided to re-share an essay I wrote in 2015 about that initial trip. Thanks for joining me this week. Ten Years Ago In China I landed in Beijing on February 16,…
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Weekly Wanderings: February 9, 2025

Good morning and happy Super Bowl Sunday to all who celebrate. I’m not a football fan, but I am a forever Philadelphia fan, so Go Birds. Something I’ve been wrangling in my brain these past few weeks is how to approach writing and sharing and, well, living during a time that feels very unstable and…
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Weekly Wanderings: February 2, 2025

Thanks for joining me this week. Recommendations China Stories Helen Davidson and Chi-hui Lin, “Taiwan’s next generation takes on its fear of the deep” Howard W. French, “What China Got Right About Big Tech” In 2023 alone, over 55 million tourists were reported to have visited Tibet—more than 15 times the Tibetan population. The Chinese Communist…