In love and war
bySeymour Topping’s love of storytelling has been matched only by his love for his wife, Audrey.
Seymour Topping’s love of storytelling has been matched only by his love for his wife, Audrey.
Oct. 1 marks the 68th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China. Seymour Topping – who covered the fall of Nanking, ending Nationalist rule, for the Associated Press – looks back on a time with parallels to our own.
A baby, a teapot and a chance encounter that changed the course of Chinese history.
Written by Seymour Topping President Donald J. Trump, in flippant disregard of a binding American historical commitment, thrust the United States recently into a…
Written by Seymour Topping. China is developing Hainan Island, its tropical jewel in the South China Sea, into what its officials describe as an international…
Written by Seymour Topping I confess to a lust for Beluga caviar — the choicest of pickled sturgeon roe, or eggs. On those rare…
Written by Seymour Topping During my years as a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press and later The New York Times, I traveled to…
Written by Seymour Topping Reading the news out of Beijing nowadays, you may very well be puzzled as to what philosophy is guiding the…
In 1949, shortly before the end of China’s Civil War as the Communist troops were about to cross the Yangtze River to seize China’s…
“The successive movement of yin (feminine) and yang (masculine) is called the Way. What issues from it is good, and that which brings it…
By Seymour Topping As we look to the future, to our security in a turbulent world, there is no greater imperative than determining how…