A new book explores the controversial life of a Kokang legend who pioneered the opium trade in the Golden Triangle and played a decades-long role in the region’s shadowy politics.
Using local ingredients like stir-fried ferns and serving up dishes like three cup chicken, Taiwanese rechao exemplifies both the country's cuisine and complex identity.
1.In the 1950s, the late John King Fairbank, the dean of modern China studies at Harvard, used to tell us graduate students a joke about the allegation that a group of red-leaning foreign service officers and academics the four Johns had “lost” China: John Paton Davies, John Stewart Service, John Carter Vincent, and John King Fairbank himself. What the McCarthyites had