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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...

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 Bringing the New York Times to China

The veteran journalist and author tells us about his first trip to China, and how he opened the Beijing bureau of "The New York Times"...

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.

Is Xi Jinping a Marxist?

“Xi Jinping Thought” — articulated in texts by China’s leader and dissected in two new books — has the power to reshape China for decades...

China Books Review

Paul French on Wallis Simpson’s China Year

Dancing To Prison

Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn on China from 1988 to Now

How Little We Knew

Emily Hahn: China to Me

Can Cultural Exchange Save U.S.-China Relations?

Kishore Mahbubani on the Asian Century

Don’t Write Off the Mao Dun Literature Prize

Fox Butterfield on Bringing the New York Times to China

Story and History

Kevin Rudd on What Xi Jinping Thinks

Is Xi Jinping a Marxist?

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

Korean Messiah to China’s 21st Century Helmsman

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