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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,...
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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.
J. G. Ballard’s Dystopian Shanghai
How the English novelist J. G. Ballard’s boyhood in war-torn Shanghai influenced his darkest fiction.
Shen Fu: Floating Life in a Fallen Realm
A Qing dynasty failson’s memoir of genteel poverty, parties and potting soil was rediscovered in a Suzhou book stall in 1874 and remains one of...
Inside the Camps
In 1991, a CBS investigation into China’s reform-through-labor camps shocked the world, exposing how prison-made goods were being exported to the U.S. Three decades later,...
What China’s Reading: Outside the Awards
Five books from China that deserve more recognition, from an internet novel about the fashion industry to a star reporter’s study of how Germany reckoned...
