My neighbour doesn’t know but just the fact that he is growing plants on his rooftop makes me happy. When it’s bright and sunny over Shanghai, like today, all I could think of is this […]
Tag: China
Martin Jacques: Understanding the rise of China
“And yet we still insist, by and large, in thinking that we can understand China by simply drawing on Western experience, looking at it through Western eyes, using Western concepts. If you want to know why […]
John D. Liu: The Lessons of the Loess Plateau
52 min Documentary (long version). Covering an area that is the size of France, the Loess Plateau is home to more than 50 million very poor farmers who have suffered centuries of severe soil erosion, […]
China Food Journey: Full Documentary
Written, produced and directed by Susan Teskey and Gert Anhalt.
Eric X. Li: A tale of two political systems
“We live in the dusk of an era. Meta-narratives that make universal claims failed us in the 20th century and are failing us in the 21st. Meta-narrative is the cancer that is killing democracy from […]
Iwan Baan: Ingenious homes in unexpected places
In this talk, Iwan Baan shows how communities all over the world, manage to adapt to their environment, come up with all sorts of solutions in response to their various needs, and create homes in […]
