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China’s Industrial Parks in Africa

Beijing is investing heavily in Ethiopia, helping to run Special Economic Zones similar to China's own. But African workers are questioning whether the states of...

John Minford’s China Bookshelf

The veteran literary translator tells us how his collection began, why his library is called “Three Dog Hall,” and that New Zealand pine is the...

Red Pine: Channeling Silent Voices

Over 50 years and 30 books, the American Bill Porter — better known as “Red Pine” — has followed the trails and trials of China’s...

Translated Chinese Literature: Hard Work

We recommend five new books translated from Chinese, spanning workers’ literature and disaffected youth, all the way to alien landscapes, Tibet and Silicon Valley.

Food Writing with Clarissa Wei

The author of a new book of postpartum recovery recipes tells us what to eat while “sitting the month,” and how Taiwanese food is distinct...

Li Mingjie on Chinese Folk Belief

The academic and author walks us through Chinese folk religion today, from paper gods to ancestor worship, and explains how faith in China is fundamentally...

A New World Disorder?

With Pax Americana crumbling, many countries in the Global South are turning to Pax Sinica as an alternative. So what are Chinese thinkers' vision for...

New China Books: Dog Days of Summer

From the canine history of Hong Kong to a revisionist history of the Great Leap Forward, we recommend five new China books to add to...

Spies in Shanghai with Heather Salter

The author and historian discusses a dramatic Soviet espionage case in interwar Shanghai that rocked the international community and presaged the Cold War.

Wang Xiaoshuai on Chinese Cinema

The pioneering filmmaker discusses China’s movie industry from the 1990s to today, and what it feels like to be caught between the censors and the...

The Missing Pages

Sixty years after the Cultural Revolution began, a writer looks back to her childhood in Beijing during its peak, and the banned books that sustained...

W. Somerset Maugham: On a Chinese Screen

Over a century after it came out, Maugham's travelogue of his trip to China in 1919–20 reveals less about China itself, more about the foreigners...

China Books Review

China’s Industrial Parks in Africa

John Minford’s China Bookshelf

Red Pine: Channeling Silent Voices

Translated Chinese Literature: Hard Work

Food Writing with Clarissa Wei

Li Mingjie on Chinese Folk Belief

A New World Disorder?

New China Books: Dog Days of Summer

Spies in Shanghai with Heather Salter

Wang Xiaoshuai on Chinese Cinema

The Missing Pages

W. Somerset Maugham: On a Chinese Screen

28 Oct, 6:30-8pm; Asia Society, NYC

Emily Feng: Uyghurs in Syria

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