The Race to Type in Chinese
The Chinese typewriter was thought to be an impossible invention. Then they made one. In the computer age, creating a digital input system for Chinese...
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Shortlist: 2024 Translated Literature Award
Presenting the jury’s shortlist of five books for the Baifang Schell Book Prize: Award for Outstanding Translated Literature from Chinese Language.
The Nanny’s Tale
A migrant worker leaves her own child behind to survive, becoming a nanny in Beijing. When she hears of a literary community for migrants, she...
Shortlist: 2024 Nonfiction Book Award
Announcing a shortlist of five books for the Baifang Schell Book Prize: Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Book on China or the Sinophone World.
Life On a Blacklist
A scholar on China reflects on the moment he was denied access to the country — and the compromises others must make to maintain it.
Ep. 19: Steven Schwankert on the Titanic’s Chinese Survivors
The author of "The Six" tells us about the Chinese survivors of the Titanic, and how they were met with racist scorn on arrival in...
Emily Feng on Identity in Xi Jinping’s China
The award-winning NPR correspondent talks about her new book, the challenges of reporting in China, and what it means to be Chinese when the state...
Pai Hsien-yung’s New York
In “New Yorkers,” fiction writer Pai Hsien-yung captured the in-betweenness of immigrant identity in America. His stories still resonate with those who followed in his...
Lin Yutang: My Country, My People
In 1935, the Chinese author Lin Yutang offered Westerners an insider’s guide to China's society. It endures today despite his own cultural contradictions.
The Thief Who Became a Celebrity
When Zhou Liqi went viral for stealing scooters to protest lack of opportunity, he sparked a debate between the popular movement of “lying flat” and...
Bob Davis on Broken Engagement
In a new e-book from The Wire China, Bob Davis interviews over two dozen Americans who have shaped U.S.-China policy, from Nancy Pelosi to Mike...
Workers of the World, Rewrite!
A Chinese non-fiction writer finds himself in the same straits as the migrant laborer-artists of Picun village whom he profiles.