Jay Chalnick’s little ‘Buddha’
byFor Dads who are just looking for a little R & R this Father’s Day, there’s a father-son debut novel by a Greenwich marketing…
China
Riding the rails on the roof of the world with Tibetan travel
byTibetan travel, then and now Journeying to Tibet on the fast Sky Train is science–fiction compared to 65 years ago. Until 1950, Tibet was…
Tibetan travel, then and now
byAudrey Topping, WAG’s Sino expert, has ridden the Sky Train from Beijing to the roof of the world – Tibet – and you’ll no…
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…
China’s gender reversal of fortune
byWhen my American grandparents arrived in China as missionaries in 1891, they were shocked to discover that traditional marriage was a contract between families…
The Tao of Chinese thinking
byWell, we must’ve had a brain-freeze or something, because we forgot to include China expert Audrey Ronning Topping’s piece on Sino brain power in…
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…
Evolving into ‘best and brightest’
byThis is the second of two parts. The first part can be found here. I first went to China as a student in 1946…
Kudos…
byTo 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…
Gallery 66 NY ‘Fired Up’ this month
byFour Westchester artists are among those featured in “All Fired Up,” a national juried exhibition for glass and ceramic artists under way this month…
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…
Soul of stone – The divine jade
byBy Audrey Ronning Topping Photographs by Bob Rozycki “Jade is Heaven.” — “I Ching,” the “Book of Changes” (China’s oldest book of wisdom) What…
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 –…
Get your goat
byCashmere is the chocolate ganache of clothing. The peak of luscious indulgence, it washes over you in warmth, triggering the pleasure centers of the…
A global legacy
byTucked away down a Scarsdale drive sits a dwelling with global treasures floor to ceiling. Buddhist statues from India and Mongolia, Tibetan prayer horns,…