Jeffrey Linn

Jeffrey Linn is an urban planner, designer, and cartographer focused on sustainability and active transportation issues. He currently lives in Seattle.

Styling It in China

A Sinica Podcast

Sociologist Ben Ross, a doctoral student at the University of Chicago, focuses on Chinese labor migration and related issues. He first got noticed by Sinica in 2007 while writing a blog about working as the only foreign "hair-washing trainee" in a Fuzhou hair salon. Listen to his interview this week with Kaiser and David Moser in Beijing and Jeremy Goldkorn calling in from the U.S.

Datong

Kang Tongbi (played by soprano Louise Kwong), left, and Kang Youwei (played by bass Apollo Wong) in Act I of Datong.

A New Opera and Hong Kong’s Utopian Legacy

This year, the 43rd annual Hong Kong Arts Festival commissioned a chamber opera in three acts called Datong: The Chinese Utopia. Depicting the life and times of Kang Youwei (1858-1927), a philosopher and reformer of China’s last Qing dynasty, it premiered in the theater of the Hong Kong City Hall, a stone’s throw away from where the Umbrella Movement protests of 2014 demanded universal suffrage and greater democracy.