After Bjork chants “Tibet” in a Shanghai concert, vice culture minister Zhou Heping says “It is hoped that these artists can understand Chinese laws and the feelings of the Chinese people and not do things against our laws or feelings”

The obituary that 93-year-old John Roderick deemed “worth dying for,” and a 2006 piece on being a China watcher during Mao’s purge. Terrain.org includes the first chapter of his last book, Minka: My Farmhouse in Japan, in its latest issue (a PDF file): “On the afternoon of Sunday December 7, 1941, I began to hate Japan and the Japanese, a nation […]

11 years ago, the Dalai Lama explained American sympathy this way: “I feel that Americans are interested because they are open-minded. They have an education system that teaches them to find out for themselves why things are the way they are… Buddha urged people to investigate things — he didn’t just command them to believe.”