China
The greed and hypocrisy of the opium trade continue to shock
Amitav Ghosh admits he found writing his history difficult because of the obscene profiteering and suffering he had to cover
Henry Kissinger saw his world fall apart
The leading advocate of world order died at a time when it all appeared to be coming undone. Henry Kissinger…
From the Odyssey to The Wizard of Oz: Praiseworthy, by Alexis Wright, reviewed
Everything blends into everything else as an Aboriginal knight errant sets out on a quest to save his scorched native bushlands
China is spying on us, so what?
That China is spying on us is hardly the revelation of the century. The Sunday Times broke the story that police have…
High life
On board Aello She was built in 1921, a beautiful wooden ketch that is as graceful to look at…
Chinese whispers
Where has Xi’s foreign minister gone?
Portrait of the week
Home Ben Wallace said he would cease to be the Defence Secretary at the next cabinet reshuffle and would not…
National insecurity
The government’s floundering over China is a gift to Labour
‘I don’t walk alone in any city’
The secretive life of China’s most controversial cartoonist
What have we been missing?
Ge’s short stories set in China are her most adventurous, ranging from politics in the time of Confucius to sex in the aftermath of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake
Wuhan clan
We finally know the identity of the scientists in the lab linked to Covid
One hundred years of humiliation
By the 1800s, the mechanical clock had become a status symbol for wealthy Chinese. The first arrived with Jesuit missionaries…
Gag order
The crackdown on China’s stand-up comics
University challenge
Our country still excels when it comes to higher education. Britain has seven of the world’s top 50 universities. In…
The root of the problem
The novelist and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo is attracted by the freedom a New York job promises, but misses the young daughter she has left behind in London
Why China might attack Taiwan
China may well attack Taiwan. According to the CIA, President Xi Jinping has instructed his armed forces to be able…
Shame on those who abandoned Peng Shuai
No one really expects much in the way of principles or morality from those charged with running international sport. The…
