Category: Taiwan
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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 23, 2025
Thanks for joining me this week. Recommendations China Stories The results of an invasion would be catastrophic not just for Taiwan but the entire globe, with as much as $10 trillion in annual losses to the world economy, according to a recent analysis by Bloomberg Economics. It could wipe out over ten percent of global…
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Weekly Wanderings: October 5, 2025
Thanks for joining me this week. Recommendations China Stories Associated Press, “Overseas Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Nathan Law denied entry to Singapore” Chris Buckley and Adam Goldman, “How China’s Secretive Spy Agency Became a Cyber Powerhouse” Leslie T. Chang, “At the Chinese Table” Yet, the accolades the film has received are not so much an…
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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: May 4, 2025
April 30 marked the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon to North Vietnamese forces. I have a special little reading round-up here at the top on reflections and analysis published to commemorate the anniversary. Thanks for joining me this week. Vietnam, 50 Years After the Fall of Saigon Minh-Thu Pham, “50 Years After Saigon:…
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Weekly Wanderings: March 23, 2025
Good morning from Chicago, where I’m at least 50% less frazzled and 150% more rested than I was when I last sat down to write a post intro. My brother and I have spent several days walking around the city, taking tours, and eating one good meal after another. Our hotel is in Little Italy,…
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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 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…
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Weekly Wanderings: December 8, 2024
On the morning of Tuesday, December 3, I got up early and started writing right away. I was working on a book review and had suddenly hit the zone where words were flowing, so my focus was unusually unshakeable. At 9:00, I reluctantly left that document and switched to Zoom, where I spent the next…
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham 