The Meeting Place
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In China’s tropical deep south, Jinghong sits at the crossroads of Dai traditions, Mekong culture, and a rapidly modernizing nation.
Richard S. Ehrlich
Richard S. Ehrlich is a Bangkok-based American foreign correspondent reporting from Asia since 1978. A winner of Columbia University's Foreign Correspondents' Award, Ehrlich's datelines have included Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, Cambodia, China, East Timor, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam and elsewhere.
His two new nonfiction books include, "Rituals. Killers. Wars. & Sex. -- Tibet, India, Nepal, Laos, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka & New York" which details extreme events and people in those lands and, "Apocalyptic Tribes, Smugglers & Freaks" quoting more than 500 people who, in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and on, traveled overland across Asia.
Ghosts on the Runway
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At an abandoned airstrip in Vang Vieng, the legacy of one of history’s most heavily bombed countries collides with a fast-changing, tourism-driven present.
Beyond the Brain
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In exile in the Himalayas, the Dalai Lama discusses preserved bodies, rebirth, Mao’s possible return, and whether consciousness survives death.
A Matter of Life and Death
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In Benares, India’s spiritual heart, the dense fabric of ritual binds its people to the sacred river that shapes their lives (and afterlives).