In love and war
bySeymour Topping’s love of storytelling has been matched only by his love for his wife, Audrey.
Chiang Kai-shek
A not-so-distant mirror: The fall of Nanking
byOct. 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.
Mao Zedong, spared
byA baby, a teapot and a chance encounter that changed the course of Chinese history.
The complex design of the ‘One China’ policy
byWritten by Seymour Topping President Donald J. Trump, in flippant disregard of a binding American historical commitment, thrust the United States recently into a…
The Sino Hawaii
byWritten by Seymour Topping. China is developing Hainan Island, its tropical jewel in the South China Sea, into what its officials describe as an international…
‘Pearls of luxury’
byWritten by Seymour Topping I confess to a lust for Beluga caviar — the choicest of pickled sturgeon roe, or eggs. On those rare…
Journey between two Chinas: The Battle of the Huaihai
byWritten by Seymour Topping During my years as a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press and later The New York Times, I traveled to…
Chinese Reaganomics
byWritten by Seymour Topping Reading the news out of Beijing nowadays, you may very well be puzzled as to what philosophy is guiding the…
On the Old Silk Road with China’s ‘Celestial Horses’
byIn 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…
Half the sky
by“The successive movement of yin (feminine) and yang (masculine) is called the Way. What issues from it is good, and that which brings it…
China – the next superpower
byBy Seymour Topping As we look to the future, to our security in a turbulent world, there is no greater imperative than determining how…