Cleo Li-Schwartz

Editor’s note: Cleo Li-Schwartz’s essay entwines personal pilgrimage and critical meditation, reading Berlin as a palimpsest of Jewish memory, Cold-War fracture, and inherited displacement. M…

Filmmaking in China is an increasingly difficult business. A small group of artists is trying to get around the rules. Among the many grievances voiced during last month’s nationwide protests in China, there was this, chanted by a crowd of protesters…

The ruling party in Taiwan tried to frame midterm elections as about looming conflict with China. The message didn’t land. A few weeks after the U.S. midterms, another critical midterm election was held on the other side of the world. On Nov. 26,…

China’s biggest political event in five years kicks off this weekend. The 20th Party Congress will determine who leads China for the next five years — an enormously consequential decision for a country that carries such global weight. That said,…

Surveys show people in Taiwan are worried about what China might do to their democracy and liberal social values. An “unstoppable trend.” A “shared aspiration of all the sons and daughters of the Chinese nation.” That’s how the Chinese Communist…