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Endymion Wilkinson’s China Bookshelf

The sinologist and former diplomat walks us through his teak-wood bookshelves on the coast of the Gulf of Thailand, and recommends five books out of...

The Bomb is Back

The myth of China's nuclear restraint obscures the dangers of its rapidly expanding arsenal. A trio of recent books take us from the bomb’s origins...

Ancient Chinese Politics with Daniel Bell

The Legalists and Confucians still run the show in today’s China, argues a scholar of classical Chinese thought — but the Mohists and Daoists still...

Mao’s Doctor Knew Too Much

The memoirs of Li Zhisui, Mao Zedong’s personal physician, tell a life of fatty pork and Daoist sex magic — and explain how to embalm...

Changing China

Five new books deal with efforts to transform China: from the conquests of the Warring States to nationalist internet fantasies, all the way to campaigns...

2025 Book Prize: Announcing the Winners

Find out who won our two $10,000 awards in the Baifang Schell Book Prize, for nonfiction and literature from or on China and the Sinophone...

Jonathan Cheng on North Korea’s Past and China’s Present

The Wall Street Journal's China bureau chief, author of a new biography of Kim Il Sung, spoke at Asia Society about the DPRK's ruling dynasty...

Colonial Adventures

When a British diplomat was found murdered in southwest China in 1875, near the Burmese border, a political spat was triggered that would have wide-ranging...

Xiang Biao on a Society at the Edge

An anthropologist with a wide youth following and a knack for popularizing academic terms explains how China’s stratified society led to social malaise amid economic...

Zero-Sum

A Chinese invasion or blockade of Taiwan is a constant, if not imminent, risk. Three new books consider Beijing’s options for force, Taiwan’s fractured politics,...

Confucius and Women, with Erin Cline

Misogyny and patriarchy are a later misreading of The Analects, argues the author of a new translation of the Confucian classic.

Shortlist: 2025 Nonfiction Award

Announcing the jury’s shortlist of five books for the Baifang Schell Book Prize: Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Book on China or the Sinophone World.

China Books Review

Endymion Wilkinson’s China Bookshelf

The Bomb is Back

Ancient Chinese Politics with Daniel Bell

Mao’s Doctor Knew Too Much

Changing China

2025 Book Prize: Announcing the Winners

Jonathan Cheng on North Korea’s Past and China’s Present

Colonial Adventures

Xiang Biao on a Society at the Edge

Zero-Sum

Confucius and Women, with Erin Cline

Shortlist: 2025 Nonfiction Award

May 27, 5:30-7pm; Asia Society NYC

Tahir Hamut Izgil: Waiting To Be Arrested at Night

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