The prospects for Tibet entirely depend on how things go in China. China has been very obdurate, emphasizing the reunification of what they view as the motherland, which is really the previous dynastic aggregation of Han Central Chinese with Manchus,…
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China’s Spring The New York Review of Books
To stand, in early May, atop the Gate of Heavenly Peace, which guards the entrance to the Forbidden City, and look across the vast crowd of people jammed into Tiananmen Square was to have a historically new sense of what…
Once Again, Long Live Chairman Mao The Atlantic
WHEN Mao Zedong died, in 1976, and his wife, Jiang Qing, was arrested as the leading spirit in the Gang of Four, the Great Helmsman’s legacy presented Deng Xiaoping, his reform-minded successor, with a dilemma. To de-emphasize Mao’s legacy in…
Dreams Of Tibet Frontline PBS, host and writer
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New World Man Cigar Afficionado
Each day as lunchtime approaches, the faithful begin to hive toward the old Bank of China building overlooking Statue Square in Central Hong Kong. Files of young men carrying smart leather briefcases and sporting double-breasted Italian suits converge with clutches…
Tunnels That Run Deep, In Earth and Memory New York Times
WHEN I first visited Cu Chi, in 1962, I was a young journalist who had driven the 21 miles from Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) with a South Vietnamese Government official to ”inspect” the area’s strategic hamlets, newly built…
Smoke In The Eye Frontline PBS, Editorial Consultant
As Hollywood releases “The Insider,” a controversial new movie dramatizing how CBS executives spiked a “60 Minutes” investigation on the tobacco industry, FRONTLINE presents an encore broadcast of “Smoke in the Eye,” its 1996 investigation of that journalistic debacle. View…
The Gate of Heavenly Peace Frontline PBS, producer
THE GATE OF HEAVENLY PEACE is a documentary about the protests at Tiananmen in 1989, and the resulting Beijing Massacre of June 4. The film explores the history of the demonstrations and comments on the “deep structure” of political habits…
Chinese Prison Labor Camps 60 Minutes
Once Again, Long Live Chairman Mao The Atlantic
WHEN Mao Zedong died, in 1976, and his wife, Jiang Qing, was arrested as the leading spirit in the Gang of Four, the Great Helmsman’s legacy presented Deng Xiaoping, his reform-minded successor, with a dilemma. To de-emphasize Mao’s legacy in…