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Barbara Demick’s China Bookshelf

The award-winning journalist and author recommends five titles, from Tibetan memoirs to environmental histories — and offers a life hack for New Yorkers with limited...

What to Read in 2024

A few China titles we're excited to read in the year ahead — and deeper pickings to draw from in our comprehensive book listings project.

Ep. 4: How ‘Leftover Women’ Reshape China

Educated, unmarried Chinese women have been dubbed “leftovers” by the state, who want them to focus on having children. Their independence is transforming China’s demographics...

Best China Books of 2023

Our round-up of recommended titles (and one anti-recommendation) from the past year, selected by our editors and various guests.

Marco Polo: Travel Writer? Fraud? Sexpat?

‘The Travels of Marco Polo’ is often held up as the earliest Western account of China and Asia. What’s actually inside the covers might surprise...

Washing History

A new novel about the Chinese Civil War feels true to the author’s experience of it, but also amplifies the Party’s preferred version of the...

Ep. 3: How China’s Future Looked in the Past

A 20th century Chinese public intellectual fell for the socialist dream, only to become disillusioned. His biographer tells us the full story.

The Bones Remember

Three new books grapple with the suppressed histories of modern China, from the Cultural Revolution to the Covid pandemic. But for every state effort to...

What China’s Reading

Our round-up of untranslated Chinese books from the Sinophone world, from “everyday feminism” to working-class struggles, and a globetrotting frog.

Professor Pangloss Goes to Shandong

Daniel A. Bell has been proposing a Confucian, meritocratic alternative to liberal democracy for decades. In a new memoir, his optimism for the China model...

Yasheng Huang on Autocracy vs. Creativity

From its earliest imperial history, China's bureaucratic system and civil service exams have ensured homogeneity and control. But at what price?

The Shadow of Chiang Kai-shek

China’s nationalist former leader has a mixed legacy. Two new books present him in a revisionist light — but what inheritance did the Generalissimo really...

China Books Review

Barbara Demick’s China Bookshelf

What to Read in 2024

Ep. 4: How ‘Leftover Women’ Reshape China

Best China Books of 2023

Marco Polo: Travel Writer? Fraud? Sexpat?

Washing History

Ep. 3: How China’s Future Looked in the Past

The Bones Remember

What China’s Reading

Professor Pangloss Goes to Shandong

Yasheng Huang on Autocracy vs. Creativity

The Shadow of Chiang Kai-shek

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

Korean Messiah to China’s 21st Century Helmsman

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