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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...

Fuchsia Dunlop on Chinese Cuisine

The culinary writer discusses the history and diversity of Chinese food, and how it has been misrepresented in the West.

Expulsion!

In early 2020, at the height of China’s early Covid epidemic, over a dozen American journalists were expelled from the nation. Where does that leave...