North Korea… Life and Death in the Koreas 6 Jan 20106 Jan 2010 I just emerged from a 46-hour encounter (minus a few breaks for sleeping, teaching, writing, riding a city bus with some ex-cons, and eating) with Barabara Demick's outstanding new book,…
China… Things I was going to explain before July finished [I] 1 Aug 20092 Aug 2009 I was going to explain how the CCP is launching a new English-language magazine called Qiushi to bolster its theoretical marketability and soft power among the mild left of North…