In China, you are as you eat
bySome people eat to live. But for the fortunate who live to eat, Chinese cuisine can be an adventure into a world of new…
Audrey Ronning Topping
In the footsteps of the great Khan
byFor June WAG’s “Power Trips” issue, our resident China expert, Audrey Ronning Topping, took on one of the ultimate power trips, Genghis Khan’s conquest…
The garden as living canvas
by“When I find pleasure in orchids, I love uprightness; when I see pines and bamboos, I think of virtue; when I stand beside limpid…
EDITOR’S LETTER – DECEMBER 2013
byAs we get older, the birthdays tend to blur. But there’s one birthday – I must’ve been 8 – that I will never forget….
Chinese Opera: A glorious tradition
byA male performer in the Beijing Opera in Beijing. Photograph by Saad Akhtar. My grandfather, a stately man of the cloth who spent many…
The Shoe Must Go On
byIn WAG’s October “Extremities” issue (hands, feet and feats), China expert Audrey Ronning Topping has a searing account of how her missionary grandparents –…
China’s battle of the pigtail
byBy Audrey Ronning Topping udrey Ronning Topping is a prize-winning photojournalist, author and documentary filmmaker. Her photographs and articles have appeared in The New…
Needling the medical establishment
byBy Audrey Ronning Topping “Acupuncture: The yin and the yang are contained within the chi, the basic principle of the entire universe. They create…
On the Roof of the World with Tibet’s God-Kings
byWe are fortunate to count among our beloved Waggers Audrey Ronning Topping, who along with her husband, former New York Times’ editor Seymour Topping,…