The Rise and Fall of the Technorati
Plotting the trajectory of the knowledge elites from another era.
International Relations
International Relations
The Other Manchurian Incident
The worst catastrophe you’ve never heard of.
International Relations
Pondering the Haze
How does a single nation handle a transnational problem?
International Relations
Behind the Pax Sinica
China’s trying to build a new international order, but it may not be what you think.
International Relations
Sail On, Black Ships
You know that old chestnut about how Japan is so weirdly wonderful because of its several hundred years of self-imposed isolation? Not so true after all.
International Relations
India is no more a Hindu nation than China is a porcelain print dress.
India is no more a Hindu country than China is a porcelain print dress. Some realities are so complex, they don’t lend themselves to oversimplification.
International Relations
Janice Nimura on the Importance of Being Amphibious
Janice Nimura on her book, “Daughters of the Samurai,” a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, and on living a three-dimensional life.
International Relations
The Dilemma of an American Education
The year was 1871. Japan was modernising, and the country needed to educate its daughters. But what to teach them? The old Confucian ways no…
International Relations
Trop Picks: Monet’s Garden in Naoshima
Claude Monet’s iconic paintings were inspired by the work of the great Japanese woodcut artist, Utagawa Hiroshige.
International Relations
The Chinese Influence on Indian Art: Deccani Paintings
Little is known about the Chinese influence on Indian art. But the two civilisations have a long history of capturing each other’s imaginations.