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Translated Chinese Literature: Hard Work

We recommend five new books translated from Chinese, spanning workers’ literature and disaffected youth, all the way to alien landscapes, Tibet and Silicon Valley.

Ep. 36: Food Writing with Clarissa Wei

The author of a new book of postpartum recovery recipes tells us what to eat while “sitting the month,” and how Taiwanese food is distinct...

Li Mingjie on Chinese Folk Belief

The academic and author walks us through Chinese folk religion today, from paper gods to ancestor worship, and explains how faith in China is fundamentally...

A New World Disorder?

With Pax Americana crumbling, many countries in the Global South are turning to Pax Sinica as an alternative. So what are Chinese thinkers' vision for...

New China Books: Dog Days of Summer

From the canine history of Hong Kong to a revisionist history of the Great Leap Forward, we recommend five new China books to add to...

Ep. 35: Spies in Shanghai with Heather Salter

The author and historian discusses a dramatic Soviet espionage case in interwar Shanghai that rocked the international community and presaged the Cold War.

Wang Xiaoshuai on Chinese Cinema

The pioneering filmmaker discusses China’s movie industry from the 1990s to today, and what it feels like to be caught between the censors and the...

The Missing Pages

Sixty years after the Cultural Revolution began, a writer looks back to her childhood in Beijing during its peak, and the banned books that sustained...

W. Somerset Maugham: On a Chinese Screen

Over a century after it came out, Maugham's travelogue of his trip to China in 1919–20 reveals less about China itself, more about the foreigners...

Ep. 34: China’s Disappearing Countryside, with Colin Flahive

Over the last quarter century, the countryside of southwest China has been transformed. The author of two memoirs reflects on what is lost, and what...

Hong Kong’s Past, Present and Future

Six years after Hong Kong's National Security Law went into effect, we convened a panel of authors to discuss what has changed since.

Can China Actually Go Green?

China’s environmental strides came out of the clash between grassroots activists and the state, argues a new book by a Chinese journalist. But now that...

China Books Review

Translated Chinese Literature: Hard Work

Ep. 36: Food Writing with Clarissa Wei

Li Mingjie on Chinese Folk Belief

A New World Disorder?

New China Books: Dog Days of Summer

Ep. 35: Spies in Shanghai with Heather Salter

Wang Xiaoshuai on Chinese Cinema

The Missing Pages

W. Somerset Maugham: On a Chinese Screen

Ep. 34: China’s Disappearing Countryside, with Colin Flahive

Hong Kong’s Past, Present and Future

Can China Actually Go Green?

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

Emily Feng: Uyghurs in Syria

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