June 05, 2019
In Hong Kong, Memories of Tiananmen Square Are Both Alive and Relevant
At this year's public memorial, the images of tanks on Tiananmen Square were interlaced with Hong Kong’s 2014 democracy movement.
Photo by Jc86035
August 03, 2018
How a Dawoodi Bohra Family Established Itself as a Shanghai Business Powerhouse
Tracing the history of the Ebrahim family's business history that spans across Shanghai, Hong Kong and Bombay and is HSBC's oldest surviving client.
Photo Courtesy Taha Ebrahim
Photo by Wpcpey
May 24, 2015
A house for Mr. Tata: An old Shanghai tale
One blistering morning in early July in Shanghai, I stood on a busy street called Wulumuqi North Road, at no. 458. It was an eight-story office building, across the road from the Shanghai Hotel. The ground floor appeared to house the Herbalife office.
Photo Courtesy Tata Family
July 23, 2015
Narendra Modi's Visit to China in 2015
Xi Jinping and Modi both understand that the desire for drums and loyalty-parades is buried deep in the hearts of their people.
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Feb 26, 2022
Book Review: Joan is Okay by Weike Wang
The Joan of the title is a New York doctor who devotes herself to her work even after her father, a returned US immigrant, dies in China.
The ambiguity Chinese emigrants feel about both the American dream and the homeland is one of the themes Wang explores in bracing and sardonic prose.
New York City, photo by Andrea Di Falco
Feb 03, 2020
Book Review: Last Boat Out of Shanghai by Helen Zia
Shanghai was once a hedonistic, international freewheeling port city, semi-colonised by Western nations after the mid-19th century Opium Wars. Later, after the fall of the last imperial Qing dynasty, China fragmented and fell into a bitter, if intermittent civil war (1927–49).
