With China creating a New Silk Road, Seymour Topping recalls a moment in the not-too-distant past when he and journalist-wife Audrey traveled along the treacherously beautiful Karakorum Highway that links Pakistan and China.
WAG’s resident Sinologist, Audrey Ronning Topping, considers the ruthless magnificence of the Qin and Han Dynasties – and the fleeting nature of empire – in a new Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit.
In the last 25 years, the Chinese fashion industry has witnessed an unprecedented development. Since President Deng Xiaping’s gaige kaifang (“reform and opening up”)…