The Eastern Arc

The Eastern Arc

The Managed Return

On the Sinicization of religion under Xi Jinping, Taiwan as the preserved synthesis, Tibet as the living resistance, and what it means to allow a tradition back while removing everything that made it dangerous

The Eastern Arc

The Maoist Strip

On the Cultural Revolution as the most thoroughgoing Emissary program in history — the systematic destruction of fifteen centuries of accumulated synthesis and the specific ideology that justified it

The Eastern Arc

The Three Teachings

On Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism as a living synthesis — how China held three traditions in creative tension for fifteen centuries, and what that synthesis produced that none of the three could have made alone