
The contradictions of China’s hospitality industry.
The contradictions of China’s hospitality industry.
There is no more revealing window into Chinese culture than its restaurants.
Chinese culture from the perspective of a pedestrian.
Quick trouble for a free-thinking family in rural Qing-Dynasty China.
What happens to music when the state gets its hands on it.
Taoist sexual technology supercharged by the world’s most powerful entheogen.
15 China books recommended by Isham Cook plus a few of his own.
Sex in the time of coronavirus in China and the U.S.
Book review essays tell China’s history over the past two centuries.
Difficult novels — and that’s a good thing — by Chinese and foreign expat authors.
The term “expatriate” is a misnomer and misrepresents the life lived abroad.
A few maps put Paul French’s “true crime” story in perspective.
A brief history of travel in China and the challenges of inhospitality.
Glimmers of Shanghai’s modernity in a 19th-century courtesan novel.
An investigation of intoxicants in the time of Confucius.