Liao Yiwu: The Storyteller
Since the 1990s, Liao Yiwu has been gathering oral histories of Chinese experience, from the everyday to the extraordinary. Then in 2011, harangued by the...
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Ep. 15: Paul French on Wallis Simpson’s China Year
In 1924, an American socialite — who would later cause a scandal by marrying Britain's King — traveled the length of China. Her experience was...
Dancing To Prison
1983’s Strike Hard Against Crime Campaign led to the arrests of many innocent victims, caught up in a culture of fear. One of them was...
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn on China from 1988 to Now
The Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times journalists reflect back on their time in Beijing three decades ago, and what has changed since.
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...
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.
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.