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Eva Dou on Huawei and Chinese Tech

Eva Dou discusses her new history of Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant at the center of the U.S.-China tech wars, and the future of Chinese...

The Curse of the “Good Premier”

Zhou Enlai, Mao Zedong’s second-in-command, has been lionized as a moderating force who held back Mao’s excesses. But does he deserve that reputation, when he...

Graham Peck: Two Kinds of Time

An American writer’s memoir of World War II China remains a timely diagnosis of the pathologies of U.S. foreign policy in the wake of the...

Huawei Goes to Iraq

How the Chinese telecom giant built a global business by chasing contracts in the Middle East — and attracted U.S. regulation in the process.

What China Read in 2024

Five books published in China last year, from fiction to memoir, reveal a nation still reeling from the pandemic, and finding a new literary voice...

Announcing the Baifang Schell Book Prize

A new annual award to celebrate outstanding books on or from China and the Sinophone world, with shortlists and winners to follow in both nonfiction...

Oriana Skylar Mastro on China’s Challenge to the U.S.

An expert on China’s military and security policy looks ahead in 2025 to uncertain U.S.-China relations under Trump, and the risk of a war over...

Best China Books of 2024

Party luminaries. TV chefs. Poetry. Scandal. Our annual round-up of notable titles on or from China, split across nonfiction and translated literature, nominated by a...

China Fiction for the Holidays

Five recent titles bring mystery and magic to the season, from novels of split identity to a children’s book about escaping over-protective parents.

Socialism with Socratic Characteristics

In attempting to justify Communist Party rule, Chinese academics have turned to an unlikely intellectual ally — classical Greek philosophy.

Ian Johnson on China Correspondence, from 1984 to Now

The Pulitzer-winning journalist tells the story of his first trip to China in 1984, and how it changed his views on foreign reporting.

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...

China Books Review

Eva Dou on Huawei and Chinese Tech

The Curse of the “Good Premier”

Graham Peck: Two Kinds of Time

Huawei Goes to Iraq

What China Read in 2024

Announcing the Baifang Schell Book Prize

Oriana Skylar Mastro on China’s Challenge to the U.S.

Best China Books of 2024

China Fiction for the Holidays

Socialism with Socratic Characteristics

Ian Johnson on China Correspondence, from 1984 to Now

Liao Yiwu: The Storyteller

April 14, 6:30-8pm; Asia Society NYC

Korean Messiah to China’s 21st Century Helmsman

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