Trop picks: Ferns
For your New Year's Eve feast this year, consider foregoing the usual floral centerpiece in favor of one made with ferns.
Pick a side
Or is that too much to ask?
The verandah riots
And you thought you were passionate about architecture.
Taiwan: Asia’s next creative powerhouse?
Taiwan is proof that democracy and creativity are not inimical to Asian culture.
Trop picks: Bonsai
In which we contemplate our messed-up relationship with the natural world.
Trop picks: Flame of the Forest
Getting up close and personal with the showgirls of the botanical world.
The age of grobalism
Yeah, no. That's not a typo.
Always hip to the cool
Southeast Asia at the vanguard.
Trop picks: Longan
Where we celebrate the syncretism in Deepavali.
The excavation of a shipwreck
The non-scandal around the recovery of a ninth century shipwreck.
Before there was Hong Kong…
Hong Kong was really a creation of Quanzhou.
Rime of the ancient mariner
Design secrets of the Arab dhow plying the Arabian and Indian Ocean trade routes and transporting goods and ideas across the world for millennia.
The evolution of pan-Asianism, Pt. IV: Southeast Asia.
A four-part series where we examine ideas of Asia, past and present.
The evolution of pan-Asianism, Pt. III: China
A four-part series where we examine ideas of Asia, past and present.
The evolution of pan-Asianism, Pt. II: India
A four-part series where we examine ideas of Asia, past and present.
The evolution of pan-Asianism, Pt. I: Japan
A four-part series where we examine ideas of Asia, past and present.
A watery story
Are autocratic regimes necessary to push through the changes we need to save our planet?
Between the lines with Uncle Ho
Sometimes propaganda can be art and art propaganda.
A matter of perspective
Why you might want to take the Kardashians seriously.
Trop picks: Crepe Jasmine
The littlest things pack the biggest punch.