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Shortlist: 2024 Translated Literature Award

Presenting the jury’s shortlist of five books for the Baifang Schell Book Prize: Award for Outstanding Translated Literature from Chinese Language.

The Nanny’s Tale

A migrant worker leaves her own child behind to survive, becoming a nanny in Beijing. When she hears of a literary community for migrants, she...

Shortlist: 2024 Nonfiction Book Award

Announcing a shortlist of five books for the Baifang Schell Book Prize: Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Book on China or the Sinophone World.

Life On a Blacklist

A scholar on China reflects on the moment he was denied access to the country — and the compromises others must make to maintain it.

Steven Schwankert on the Titanic’s Chinese Survivors

The author of "The Six" tells us about the Chinese survivors of the Titanic, and how they were met with racist scorn on arrival in...

Emily Feng on Identity in Xi Jinping’s China

The award-winning NPR correspondent talks about her new book, the challenges of reporting in China, and what it means to be Chinese when the state...

Pai Hsien-yung’s New York

In “New Yorkers,” fiction writer Pai Hsien-yung captured the in-betweenness of immigrant identity in America. His stories still resonate with those who followed in his...

Lin Yutang: My Country, My People

In 1935, the Chinese author Lin Yutang offered Westerners an insider’s guide to China's society. It endures today despite his own cultural contradictions.

The Thief Who Became a Celebrity

When Zhou Liqi went viral for stealing scooters to protest lack of opportunity, he sparked a debate between the popular movement of “lying flat” and...