Fake it Till You Make It: How China’s Knock-off Market Impacts Ancient Folk Crafts Annie Katsura Rollins Art & Literature, Arts & Culture, Society & Culture China’s rapidly developing economy—and resulting consumer culture—is re-popularizing one of the country’s oldest folk arts: “Like most things in China, where there is profit, there is counterfeit.
Travel Writing in the Twitter Age Sarah Tory Art & Literature, Arts & Culture, Psychology Six months ago, Paul Salopek walked out of Herto Bouri, Ethiopia, heading northwest across the parched expanse of the Great Rift Valley. He will be walking for the next seven years. Salopek, a Pulitzer...
The Asian Complex – Or Why We Fear Iran More Than North Korea Kaitlin Solimine Government, Society & Culture Kim Jong-il, supreme leader of North Korea, was a brutal dictator with an arsenal of nuclear weapons presenting the greatest “proliferation danger than any other on the planet.” He left a legacy of...
