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Best China Books of 2025

Identity issues. Migrant stories. Company profiles. Lost daughters. Daddy issues. Our annual round-up of notable books on or from China, nonfiction and literature, nominated by...

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Support our work at China Books Review by giving a tax-deductible donation this giving season — we'll send you a complimentary issue of our printed...

Logging Unpaid Hours

When a state-run sawmill from the Mao era privatized and eventually closed, its female workers were denied fair compensation. Its story doubles as an alternate...

New Fiction from China

2025 has seen a bumper crop for Chinese literature in translation. We recommend five recent titles, from gritty tales of the northeast to conjoined fiction...

Jung Chang: A Grande Dame of China Writing

The author of “Wild Swans” and its new sequel made her name by introducing China to readers through personal history — but her later biographies...

Sex, Scams and Sorcery with Bruce Rusk and Christopher Rea

Tales of trickery were popular in the late Ming dynasty. The translators of a new collection explain how they still resonate today.

The Revolution Will Be Illustrated

In a graphic novel depicting a dystopian future Hong Kong, three former democracy activists struggle to come to terms with a dark new reality.

Books from the Sinosphere

Five new reads from the wider world of sinophone literature, including a Taiwanese book on Covid quarantine and a Malaysian-Chinese memoir of loss.

Sins of the Father

Xi Zhongxun, one of China’s early communist revolutionaries, tried to balance reformist instincts with loyalty to the Party. His failure left an indelible mark on...

Vikram Seth: Hitchhiking From China to India

Before he became an award-winning novelist, the Indian writer Vikram Seth was an exchange student in China. In the 1980s, he traveled overland from Nanjing...

Nominations Open for 2025 Baifang Schell Book Prize

Our book prize returns in its second year, celebrating exceptional books on or from China and the Sinophone world. Nominate now!

Chris Horton on Taiwan’s History and Present

Colonized by the Dutch Republic, Qing China and Japan, Taiwan's complicated past led to a multi-layered identity today. We invited the author of a new...

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