大象传媒

Pascale Harter introduces personal stories, insights and analysis from 大象传媒 correspondents, journalists and writers all over the world. In this edition:

LUCY ASH meets the monks of Valaam, spearheading a resurgent Russian Orthodoxy;

STEVE ROSENBERG is disorientated by the increasingly visible signs of Islamisation in Chechnya, and gets to talk it over with leader Ramzan Kadyrov;

HUGH SCHOFIELD delves into a possible archaeological fraud in France - probing possible state skullduggery over the site of the Battle of Alesia, where Julius Caesar fought the Gauls;

DANIEL NASAW joins a group of Civil War re-enactors another battlefield - that of Antietam in Maryland, 150 year on;

MARTIN BUCKLEY visits Belgrade, and finds Serbia ever prouder of its distant history, but ambivalent about more recent events and its own future;

MARTIN PATIENCE finds himself groaning under the sheer weight of statistics on offer in China;

and KATE McGEOWN learns to love Filipino cooking - well, some of it. (Not the duck-embryo eggs or dried blood cubes, though.)