I have an feature in today’s Financial Times Weekend Magazine. It starts and finishes in Baoxing (left), a few hours’ drive north of Ya’an City, and uses the town and surrounding panda habitat to explore two sides of modern China:
First review
My first review of The Way of the Panda appeared today in The Daily Mail. It’s a very thorough run-down of what’s in the book. Here’s a nice pull-quote: “Henry Nicholls expertly charts the panda’s decades of fame and binds
Pandas for kiwis?
New Zealand wants to swap kiwis for pandas. New Zealand Prime Minister John Key appears to be up for trying to bring down the price of renting a pair of pandas from the People’s Republic of China by offering up