Category: Hong Kong
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Weekly Wanderings: December 21, 2025
Here we are—the shortest day of the year, and the final regular Weekly Wanderings post of 2025, although I’ll pop into your inboxes next Sunday with a year in review sort of thing. Thank you to everyone who has read, clicked, liked, subscribed, etc. I already have some writing lined up for 2026, both here…
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Weekly Wanderings: December 14, 2025
Two housekeeping notes to start: (1) If you’re in Clawson, Michigan, on Sunday, January 4, I’ll be the discussant for a talk by Joseph Torigian on his book, The Party’s Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping (read my write-up of the book from earlier this year). Tickets are free,…
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Weekly Wanderings: December 7, 2025
Thanks for joining me this week. Recommendations China Stories Keith Bradsher, “The New York Times Marks the Centennial of Its Shanghai Bureau” Violet Du Feng, “How to Find a Date in a Country With Over 30 Million Extra Men” (video) Oliver Holmes, “‘Don’t say we didn’t warn you’: Beijing summons journalists in Hong Kong after…
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Weekly Wanderings: November 30, 2025
Black Friday Sale! Small-Business Saturday Savings! Maura’s Cyber Monday Mania! Wait, no, that’s not right. I’ve read those words so many times in the past few days, I forgot that I’m not here to sell anything. Nor do I have a holiday gift guide to share. There’s nothing to buy here, just a handful of…
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Weekly Wanderings: June 29, 2025
Thanks for joining me this week. Recommendations China Stories David Bandurski and Alex Colville, “Is Xi’s Grip Holding?” Edison Chen, “After Engagement w/ Orville Schell” John Delury, “How to Hide a Chinese Empire” Ross Perlin, “The Struggle Against Autocracy in Asia” Jemimah Steinfeld, “Death by a thousand cuts in Hong Kong” Rebecca Tan and Pei-Lin…
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Weekly Wanderings: May 18, 2025
Thanks for joining me this week. Recommendations China Stories Juliana Yat Shun Kei, “Do you know this place used to be a camp?” Fred Pearce, “China’s Mega Dam Project Poses Big Risks for Asia’s Grand Canyon” Stella Robertson, “Has the Milk Tea Alliance Spoiled?” “Whipling”, “China’s army launches media hiring spree” Xinrui Zhuang, “Africa and…
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Weekly Wanderings: April 27, 2025
I only have a few stories to share in today’s post, but there’s a hefty collection of links to check out in last Tuesday’s edition if you haven’t seen that yet. This light coverage is partially due to my disinclination to read anything with a headline containing the words “tariffs” or “trade war” last week.…
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Weekly Wanderings: April 22, 2025
Thanks for joining me this week. Recommendations China Stories James T. Areddy, “The China Foe Storming State Capitols” Ben Bland, “Making sense of China-Southeast Asia relations” Jonathan Chatwin, “The Race to Type in Chinese” Chang Che, “‘You Think We’re Afraid of America?’” and “3 takeaways from my visit to Yiwu, the frontlines of the trade…
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Weekly Wanderings: January 5, 2025
Two weeks without recommendations meant I saved up a bumper crop for today—I hope everyone can find a story or two in the links below to read with their coffee on a cold winter Sunday. Thanks for joining me this week. Recommendations China Stories The recent shift in exile rhetoric suggests a realization by the…
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Weekly Wanderings: December 1, 2024
December! Well, Decem-brrrr here in Michigan … it was 19 degrees outside and snowing lightly when I woke up this morning. In addition to the links below, I have a new piece just up at the Los Angeles Review of Books: The creation of character input methods, and how thinking about them has changed our…
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