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The Martyrdom of Liu Xiaobo

China’s dissident writer was an exemplar of iconoclastic intellectual spirit, pursuing a more humane society despite state repression. A new biography draws the arc of...

Summer China Reads

Five new China books for your summer reading list, from an intergenerational family memoir to a children's picture book of the Cultural Revolution.

How to Avoid Conflict in Taiwan

Xi Jinping has made clear his desire to "reunify" Taiwan. The U.S. and its allies should take him at his word, argues a former deputy...

Orville Schell on Visiting China in the 1980s

The 1980s in China were an exciting, ephemeral period of opening. The Peking Hotel podcast talked to a China watcher who lived, and recorded, what...

Sarah Conger: Letters from the Boxer Rebellion

In 1900, the wife of an American envoy to China was caught up in the infamous siege of Beijing. The letters she wrote at the...

Perry Link on Getting to Know June 4 Intellectuals

Chinese intellectuals played a critical role in China’s opening during the 1980s, and the protests of 1989. In a new podcast collaboration, we talked to...

Where are the Tiananmen Protest Leaders Today?

35 years after Tiananmen, the most-wanted student and worker demonstrators now live in America, Hong Kong and Taiwan. A journalist who covered the protests caught...

Ep. 9: Tiananmen Remembered

It has been 35 years since the violent crackdown on the Tiananmen protests of 1989. We talked to an activist whose work pushes for the...

The Habit of Hoping

In the wake of Tiananmen, can a mother’s love, or a wife’s concern, transcend national trauma?

Books on the Chinese-American Experience

To celebrate AAPI month, we partnered with Asia Society to round up five books that capture different facets of what it means to be Chinese-American.

China’s New Maritime Order

Asia contends with a complex history of unresolved disputes in the South China Sea. Two new books unpack the challenge posed by Beijing to maritime...

Short Stories from China

Chinese literature has a long-standing, often fantastical tradition of the short story form. Five modern collections, from both the mainland and Taiwan, show that legacy...

China Books Review

The Martyrdom of Liu Xiaobo

Summer China Reads

How to Avoid Conflict in Taiwan

Orville Schell on Visiting China in the 1980s

Sarah Conger: Letters from the Boxer Rebellion

Perry Link on Getting to Know June 4 Intellectuals

Where are the Tiananmen Protest Leaders Today?

Ep. 9: Tiananmen Remembered

The Habit of Hoping

Books on the Chinese-American Experience

China’s New Maritime Order

Short Stories from China

30 Oct, 6:30-8pm; Asia Society, NYC

Adrift in the South: China’s Migrant Literature

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