Last week, I was standing in a university hallway, looking at two headlines on my phone screen: “AI Goes Rogue” and “Model Cheats Its Way onto the Internet.” By the time I reached the next seminar, the facts had already mutated into something like an
Who counts as a journalist? For most of modern history, the answer seemed almost embarrassingly simple. A journalist worked for a newspaper, a broadcaster or a news agency; editors assigned stories, professional norms governed the work, and audiences knew more or less where journalism ended
Anyone who directs and completes a film on the scale of The Odyssey deserves respect. Bringing such an undertaking—logistically, technically, financially, artistically—to the screen is an extraordinary achievement; critics like me have an easy job. In the immortal words of the most fearsome and magnificently
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This book offers a long-overdue, balanced, and objective perspective on China’s transformation from a constrained economy in the late 1970s to a leading global power in 2024. It examines the political motivations behind China’s rise through a detailed contextualisation of the reforms and opening-up policies
Media Realities is an intellectual intervention into today’s most urgent debates about truth, perception, and power. Including essays by journalists, artists, philosophers, and theorists, this interdisciplinary volume exposes how mass media—old and new—shape not just what we know, but what we believe to be real. From
Chinese rapper Lan Lao, a provocative and unmistakably individual presence, has built his reputation on a style that moves between sharp-edged social observation, abrasive humour, self-mythologising bravado, and an ear for the vernacular textures of contemporary Chinese life. His public persona is as divisive as
As Far as the Feet Can Pedal: 7,000 Kilometres Through the Middle Kingdom Christian Y. Schmidt and Volker Häring dared the extraordinary: they cycled the original route of Mao’s Long March in spectacular fashion. Past rice terraces and mandarin orchards, through breathtaking—and often perilous—gorges, into
