Month: September 2025
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Weekly Wanderings: September 28, 2025
Thanks for joining me this week. New Goodreads Review Recommendations China Stories James T. Areddy, “Jerome Cohen, the First American to Practice Law in China, Dies at 95” Yangyang Cheng, “Being a Journalist in China” (audio) Eric Fish, “The ‘Iron Dam’ that became China’s deadliest secret” (audio) Francesca Regalado, “A Curator Flees Bangkok After China Deems…
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Weekly Wanderings: September 21, 2025
Thanks for joining me this week. New Goodreads Reviews Recommendations China Stories Chang Che, “‘I have to do it’: Why one of the world’s most brilliant AI scientists left the US for China” Beijing’s white paper on national security, published in May, pivots from emphasising the pre-eminence of internal and regime security to lauding China…
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Weekly Wanderings: September 14, 2025
Thanks for joining me this week. Recent Goodreads Reviews Recommendations China Stories As the United States slides further into autocracy, the numbing freeze of fear is creeping back into my veins. I have accepted exile, but I’m not ready for imprisonment. I have left the old country, but I’m not ready to abandon the new…
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Weekly Wanderings: September 7, 2025
And we’re back! I, of course, thought that taking August “off” would enable me to get completely caught up on life. The books I would read! The closets I would organize! The freezer I would restock! Needless to say, most of my plans did not come to fruition, though I did clean out my garage…
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham 