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.
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.
The threat to our schools
If we believe that education is a public good, then now is the time to raise the decibel level on the conversation around private tutoring.
Whither the city?
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.
A map of Asia that doesn't include Utopia isn't worth glancing at*
Like hypochondriac dads in their quest for perfect health, there isn't a social experiment that we haven't tried in the quest for Utopia.
The Intimate Enemy
Alain Soldeville’s photos of the transgender community in Singapore in the 1980s are startlingly intimate.
What is Modern Art in the Asian Context?
Summarizing the development of art in the West, the artist Chen Hengke (1876-1923) described Western painting as typically faithful to forms