Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has lived in Beijing and Taiwan for more than half of the past 30 years, writing for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and other publications. He has written two books: one on civil society and grassroots protest in China and another on Islamism and the Cold War in Europe.
Son of the Revolution is actually three stories in one first, a graphic I-was-there account of what it was like to grow up during the Cultural Revolution; second, a cliffhanger love story with a happy ending; and third, a poignant analysis of how Chinese people have tried and failed, and tried again, to break out of their past.
As much as expats in China like to complain about the state of Chinese film and television, this week Kaiser and Jeremy remind us that there is a lot of great art out there, too, in a show that asks the critical question of: what is worth our collective time? Joining to give their takes on this question are guests Raymond Zhou, film reviewer for China’s biggest film magazine
Old Crime News thread is here, 5/3 thru 6/4 (started a new one b/c adding to the old was crashing my browser.) Philadelphia mayor responds to mass shooting that left 3 dead, 11 wounded; suspects still at largehttps://t.co/ihYP2ABzVy