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How China’s New Left Embraced the State

China’s leftist intellectuals, once regime critics in the 1990s, have shifted from their socialist origins to embrace statism and the China model. Where does that...

Dali Yang: How Covid Wasn’t Contained

The author of a new book on the early spread of Covid in Wuhan lays out what political factors prevented alarm bells from going off.

A Record of Old Kashgar

The Uyghur city in Xinjiang has been disrupted by outside forces through history — of which Chinese rebuilding is the latest change. A book of...

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...

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.

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 on 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.

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