Ross Perlin

Ross Perlin has written on issues of language endangerment and cultural survival in China, the US, and the Jewish Diaspora.

The Silk Road unravels

The planned demolition of the ancient trading post of Kashgar, announced earlier this year (see Henryk Szadziewski, "Kashgar’s old city: the politics of demolition", 3 April 2009)

By Ross Perlin

/ 29 Jul 2009

Letter from Motor City

The ruins of Detroit are no less spectacular, no less heartbreaking, than those of fallen ancient capitals. A beaux-arts railway station, its 18 stories vacant for the last two decades,

By Ross Perlin

/ 19 Jun 2009