The Evolution of Pan-Asianism, Pt. III: China
A four-part series where we examine ideas of Asia, past and present.
A four-part series where we examine ideas of Asia, past and present.
A four-part series where we examine ideas of Asia, past and present.
Plotting the trajectory of the knowledge elites from another era.
The worst catastrophe you’ve never heard of.
How does a single nation handle a transnational problem?
China’s trying to build a new international order, but it may not be what you think.
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.
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.
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.
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…