As the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution approaches and America’s relationship with Russia commands the headlines, Seymour Topping looks at Russia’s troubled present and a scary moment in its recent past.
Audrey Topping, WAG’s Sino expert, has ridden the Sky Train from Beijing to the roof of the world – Tibet – and you’ll no…
For 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…
Different countries seek empowerment in different ways. The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan – “Land of the Thunder Dragon” but also an insular world where…
This flying horse was discovered in a Han Dynasty tomb (212 B.C.) in 1972. Inset, Chinese paper-cut horses copied from the paintings of the…
What is empowerment ? Perceptions of empowerment vary greatly across time and culture. Some people are empowered by material gains, while others are empowered…
To Wagger Audrey Topping, whose new book, “China Mission,” has won the 2013 American Publishers PROSE Award for Media and Cultural Studies. If you’ve been…
Four Westchester artists are among those featured in “All Fired Up,” a national juried exhibition for glass and ceramic artists under way this month…
By Audrey Ronning Topping Photographs by Bob Rozycki “Jade is Heaven.” — “I Ching,” the “Book of Changes” (China’s oldest book of wisdom) What…
In WAG’s October “Extremities” issue (hands, feet and feats), China expert Audrey Ronning Topping has a searing account of how her missionary grandparents –…
Story and photographs by Audrey Topping If any place deserves to be haunted, it is the old Silk Road. For amid the ruins of…
By Audrey Topping If thy heart be right, then will every creature be to thee a mirror of life and a book of holy…
Tucked away down a Scarsdale drive sits a dwelling with global treasures floor to ceiling. Buddhist statues from India and Mongolia, Tibetan prayer horns,…