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Emily Feng on Uyghur Fighters in Syria
The NPR correspondent talks about her new book on the Uyghur fighters in Syria who helped take down Bashar al-Assad's regime, in our event at...
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Nominations Open for 2027 Baifang Schell Book Prize
Our book prize returns in its third year, celebrating exceptional books on or from China and the Sinophone world, in nonfiction and fiction categories.
R.F. Kuang’s Distance of Diaspora
The bestselling author of fantasy and satirical fiction has never shied from thorny issues of identity and belonging. In her new novel, she tackles them...
Ep. 38: Biotech and AI with Ruby Wang
The physician and author discusses China’s healthcare system, from cures to cancer and cutting-edge biotech innovation, to how the health system leaves some behind.
Fetishized
The racialized sexualization of Asian women in the West has a very long history. A recent memoir grapples with the cost of internalizing that narrative,...
Lin Yao: How China Views Trump
The political scientist explains why some Chinese intellectuals admire Trump, how the meaning of liberalism has shifted, and mutual misunderstandings between China and America.
Eileen Chang’s ‘Lovable Yet Miserable Times’
Eileen Chang’s fiction has reached almost mythic status, yet not long ago it was nearly forgotten. The story of her publishing history is almost as...
China’s Psychological Scars
A panel event at Asia Society considered the personal consequences of political movements in China’s living memory.
Nothing to Their Name
A new history of Chinese in the American West catalogues a multitude of discriminatory laws that restricted their activity and immigration. The impacts from a...
New China Books: Back to School
We recommend five titles to deepen understanding of China, from an argument that its economy is in trouble to histories of colonial trade wars and...
Fighting for Home
After 14 years of war in Syria, Damascus fell to the rebels in December 2024. Fighting with them was a small but critical cohort of...
Ep. 37: What China’s Writing with Na Zhong
Sally Rooney’s Chinese translator and our own “What China’s Reading” columnist talks to us about Chinese tastes in literature and her own debut novella.
