Month: July 2025
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Weekly Wanderings: July 27, 2025
A quick programming note up top today: I’m taking August off from Weekly Wanderings posts—this feels like a good time for a vacation, and I have a huge stack of novels calling my name. Thanks for joining me this week—I’ll see you in September! Recommendations China Stories Keith Bradsher, with photographs by Andrea Verdelli, “How…
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Weekly Wanderings: July 20, 2025
I didn’t plan ahead of time to take a week off from posting links and such, but seeing as how it’s 8:33pm on Sunday night and most of the stories I intended to share are still unread tabs in my browser, I think that’s how this is going to go. This weekend I went up…
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Weekly Wanderings: July 13, 2025
Thanks for joining me this week. Recommendations China Stories ChinaFile Conversation, “The Dalai Lama’s Succession” Amy Hawkins, “China’s human rights lawyers speak out, 10 years after crackdown” Amy Hawkins, with graphics by Harvey Symons and Lucy Swan, “China’s coal heartland fighting for a greener future” Betsy Joles, “The Chinese Men Seeking Pakistani Christian Wives” Calvin…
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Weekly Wanderings: July 6, 2025
Thanks for joining me this week. Recommendations China Stories The Chinese students I spoke with were intently parsing official edicts in an effort to work out which course subjects were sensitive and which weren’t. What I detected from my conversations with them was their sense of being caught in a guessing game. A formerly innocuous…
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham 