journalist and author
Beijing-based journalist who specializes in civil society, culture and religion, and author of Wild Grass: Three Portraits of Change in Modern China; former writer for the Wall Street Journal, he won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China
Alternative Education Catches On in China For a century, European and American parents looking for an alternative, arts-based education for their children have embraced the principles of Waldorf Schools , developed in 1919 by an obscure Austrian mystic. Now the movement is catching on in a place famous for routine, highly structured learning.
Alternative Education Catches On in China For a century, European and American parents looking for an alternative, arts-based education for their children have embraced the principles of Waldorf Schools , developed in 1919 by an obscure Austrian mystic. Now the movement is catching on in a place famous for routine, highly structured learning.
One year later, the threat of more mudslides still exists One year ago, torrential rain pelted the hillside community of Montecito, which was scorched a month earlier by the Thomas Fire. It unleashed a flow of mud and boulders the size of cars and killed 23 people.
