Review of Ai Weiwei's photograph exhibit at New York Asia's Society and published in book form.

A Memoir of my time working at Radio Beijing, Central Broadcasting in 1980-81

Also refer to my author's website:  www.gailpellett.com NEXT READINGS: Friday, June 17, Laurel Bookstore, downtown Oakland at 6 pm Monday, June 20, Books Inc., Palo Alto, at 7 ...

ln the early '80s Chinese dissident artists started arriving in New York City. They were fleeing censorship and government control of art and expression. ...

By posting s short documentary that I made forty years ago on this archival website, I learned much more aboutl the healing power of the ...

Few people outside Haiti know of the crucial role the Catholic Ti Legliz (little church) movement played in bringing down Baby Doc. Prayer groups, ...

The first Cowboy Poets Festival in Elko, Nevada in the spring of 1985 celebrates a tradition of cowboys writing verse in chapbooks or reciting around ...

Reporting from the trenches of Radio Beijing in 1980-81, where I worked as a "foreign expert," before China's economic miracle where paper clips, xerox, working ...

Originally published in LA Review of Books: Dec. 2, 2016 https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/young-lives-new-china/#! AMERICANS ARE OFTEN highly opinionated about China, yet reveal an embarrassing ignorance about the Chinese. Alec ...

See blog posting "Zhang Hongtu - Retrospective at the Queens Museum" on my author's site for "Forbidden Fruit—1980 Beijing, a Memoir" www.gailpellett.com November, 2015