Ep. 8: Uyghur Women Speak Out
The authors of two recent memoirs talk to the China Books podcast about ongoing cultural repression in Xinjiang, and their own lives in exile outside...
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Tibet’s Cultural Revolution
The brutality of Maoist Red Guards is well documented, but lesser known in relation to Tibet, where its spiritual damage ran deep. Few records remained...
Edgar Snow: Red Star Struck
The left-wing journalist’s 1937 account of meeting Mao influenced a generation who saw China through rose-tinted glasses as late as the 1970s — until the...
Corky Lee’s Chinatown
Since 1970, a Chinese-American photojournalist has been capturing images of street life in New York’s Chinatown. Here are twelve of them, from protest to pandemic.
Translated Chinese Literature: Trauma Fiction
Chinese writers have long used fiction to process trauma, both historical and personal. In these five newly translated titles, the trend continues in modern settings,...
In-Between City
Hong Kong has been caught between empires — and narratives — for almost two centuries. The diversity of its early migrants made the city what...
Ep. 7: China’s Green Energy Gold Rush
The race to go green is as much a business opportunity as a climate imperative. And China is winning. We asked a leading expert why...
Brave Attempt
A new account tells the story of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, and their failures, through four individual lives. But we need more unmediated voices...
Minxin Pei: China’s Surveillance State
China's surveillance capabilities are often presented as feats of futuristic technology. But its true advantage lies in human networks of informers and state workers.
Mother Tongues
Yiyun Li, the Chinese-born writer of fiction and memoir, left in 1996 and has moved on to other settings in her work. But can a...
Book Talk: Escape to Dali
From dissidents to drop-outs, why are some Chinese seeking a rural escape hatch from the promises of the modern urban state? An Asia Society book...
All We Have to Fear
The Western world has held an outsized fear of Chinese power for centuries. But why? A new book argues that alarmism began in the late...