How Little We Knew
Nicholas Kristof and his wife Sheryl WuDunn were the sole New York Times correspondents in Beijing in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In his...
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Emily Hahn: China to Me
In her memoir of 1930s and 40s China, the New Yorker correspondent brought the country to life while coming down from opium binges in Shanghai...
Can Cultural Exchange Save U.S.-China Relations?
Sino-American ties are reaching new lows. A new book looks back to the 1970s, when the relationship began, to question whether “people’s diplomacy” at sub-governmental...
Ep. 14: Kishore Mahbubani on the Asian Century
The Singaporean diplomat and author tells us how Asia’s rise to preeminence is inevitable, and what Western writers get wrong about China.
Don’t Write Off the Mao Dun Literature Prize
Never mind the Booker, Pulitzer and National Book Award — China’s Mao Dun Prize, despite its behind-the-times reputation, can shift the reading habits of a...
Fox Butterfield on China in the 1970s
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author tells us about his first trip to China, and opening the Beijing bureau of "The New York Times" in...
Translated Chinese Literature: Story and History
Five recent Chinese books in translation apply different prisms — pictures, poetry, fiction, memoir — to draw narratives out of complicated personal and political histories.
Book Launch: Kevin Rudd on What Xi Jinping Thinks
At an Asia Society event, Dr. Kevin Rudd discussed his new book on Xi Jinping’s ideological worldview, and its implications for China’s political direction.
Is Xi Jinping a Marxist?
“Xi Jinping Thought” — articulated in texts by China’s leader and dissected in two new books — has the power to reshape China for decades...
Move Fast and Break Things
Deng Xiaoping’s Southern Tour of 1992 has been heralded as the unofficial act that kick-started China’s economic miracle. But other voices were also calling for...
Ep. 13: Peter Hessler on ‘Other Rivers’
The bestselling author first taught in China in the late 1990s. In 2019, he went back. We caught up with him to ask what had...
Jane Perlez’s China Bookshelf
The veteran journalist walks us through five titles from her shelf, from past China correspondents to new novels — and an anti-imperialist board game from...