Spring in Guangdong means one thing: opera.

Chaque personne est un but, une fin.

This winter (2024-2025) is a poor one for some species we consider to be staple winter visitors in Beijing.  Thrush numbers are well down, waxwings are scarce and there are almost no high-elevation redstarts in their usual mountain haunts.  Certainly at Lingshan the sea buckthorn crop, which usually sustains good numbers of thrushes and redstarts,…

Twenty-five years ago—almost to the day—Shanghai in Images took off. With seed funding from the France-Berkeley Fund, my comrade-in-idea(l)s, Yeh Wen-hsin, and I launched the first online database of Chinese historical photographs with two...

The former Chinese Communist Party leader’s ousting and death led to the Tiananmen protests, but his life reveals a deeper push and pull between reformist and conservative impulses.

De He Yuyan sur Bitter Winter : Église catholique en Chine : l'étrange cas de l'évêque Ji Weizhong 02/05/2025 Une...

In more than 20 years in Shanghai (and counting), I spent many years in the former French concession but one location in particular remains a clear favorite. This was on Route Kaufmann (today Anting lu / 安亭路), where I spent 10 years. Living at the back a small lane really felt like living in Old … Continue reading Route Kaufmann, Frenchtown

Sebastian Veg a publié une nouvelle traduction des œuvres majeures du plus grand écrivain chinois de l’époque contemporaine: la Préface ...