The China Chronicle Snow buried tents, Gama Valley, Tibet No one died earlier this month when a rare, off-season blizzard struck remote Gama Valley on the eastern slopes of the Zhumulangma (“Goddess Mother of the World”) mountain during peak hiking season. Almost 600 hikers and 300 guides and porters who were caught in raging winds and trapped under 3.5 feet of snow were saved. If the same storm had hit the south side of Sagarmatha (“The Forehead in the Sky”) mountain, as M

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 27 I recently returned from almost a month in China, primarily spent in Henan...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 19 Today is the last day of 2024. As we prepare to turn the page on a new...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 16 This American Thanksgiving week, I am returning in prose to Bhutan (I...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 14 Hiking was on the itinerary in Bhutan. I enjoy hiking because it makes the...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Newsletter Vol. 3, Issue 13 This new series journeys to Bhutan, a small, Buddhist country in...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 8 Today’s Issue continues the conversation of Chinese and American cultures...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 7 If we want to understand the relationship between China and America,...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 4 I recently wrote about U.S.-China connections in Gilded Age America. Today I...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 32 China is the land of the “Three Teachings” – Confucianism, Daoism, and...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 30 The historical Cape Cod and China Connection came to me again during a...

Continuing with the Buddhist theme I wrote about last week, the following is an excerpt from my visit to the world's largest stupa in...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 25 A friend recently blogged her reaction to a short YouTube video of famed...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 19 China boasts an energized, under-40 population of more than one half...

Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 10 History is the inevitable result of the passage of time. History is...