Whatever Thoreauvian notions you might harbor about nature in the tropics, the truth is that the impact of human intervention is everywhere, and what you encounter is not quite natural.
Is it even possible to spread a set of norms widely, but still maintain your status as the arbiter of those norms?
Durand and Wallace drew the map of modern Asia. They know the place. And Gibson is, in her own words, “a liberally-educated, middle-aged frog, climbing out of her tropical…
Maya Thiagarajan is the author of Beyond the Tiger Mom, a more thoughtful take on parenting differences between East and West than that other…
Southeast Asia at the vanguard.
A four-part series where we examine ideas of Asia, past and present.
Things would have turned out very differently for Marie Antoinette had she had one.
When America was modernizing, its artists embraced modernity, warts and all. Now Asia is having its own modern moment, but our artists remain markedly ambivalent about modernity.