Commentary “Has China lost her soul?” This is a question asked by Erping Zhang in a recent video, posted as part of the “Tea With Erping” series. I viewed the video with great interest, as this is a question that I have often pondered. Citing, among other factors, the Chinese Communist Party’s terrible, decade-long Cultural Revolution, its systematic media censorship, and its blanket repression of religious freedom, Zhang states, “In today’s Chinese culture, the divine soul and spiritual traditions are no longer there.” He continues, “The Communist Party has done all it could to disconnect 1.3 billion people from their spiritual and cultural heritage.” Whenever I think about the question of China’s soul, I inevitably think about this in contrast to the soul of another nation: Taiwan. Having previously lived in both authoritarian China and democratic Taiwan, I explain to friends that a fundamental difference between Taiwan and China is …