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China Books Review Launch Event

Three generations of China writers discussed how the nation, and the way outsiders observe it, has changed from the 1960s to today.

Tears of Salt

Rural women in China have been disadvantaged and abused for millennia. A star Chinese journalist shows how in one village, little has changed.

Ep. 1: Chinese Fiction in the Reform Era

When China opened up in the 1980s, how did fiction writers respond to their new-found — but fragile — freedoms of expression? The China Books...

Mao to Now

Communist China, once all but impenetrable, opened up only to tighten politically again. Has Xi circled back to the Mao era? And what can we...

Will We Hear the Real Stories of Chinese Female Workers Again?

A women’s rights activist, one of the “Feminist Five” detained by authorities in 2015, discusses a banned Chinese book about the lives of female factory...

Radical Changes

A Chinese novelist moves to New York. Uprooted in a new country, how can she make sense of her past? And why are they called...

Orville Schell’s China Bookshelf

The veteran sinophile tells us about five books that shaped his relationship with China since the 1950s — and why ladders are an invaluable but...

How to Deal with the Chinese Revolution

In a 1966 essay, the American historian and father of Chinese Studies reflects on centuries-old cultural and political differences in the (then) early days of...