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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...

Ep. 2: American Correspondents in China

Foreign correspondents have been instrumental in telling the story of how China has changed since World War II. So, we turned the microphone on them.

Murong Xuecun: ‘I’ve Been Liberated From a Cage’

Formerly one of the last dissident writers left in China, Murong Xuecun is now living in exile. How does a novelist get to the point...

New Chinese Literature in Translation

Our pick of five recent fiction books translated from Chinese into English, from donkeys that see ghosts to a dystopian vision of Hong Kong.

A Contested Century

In China, the 19th century is presented as an era of national humiliation. Two new books and an exhibition attempt to humanize it. But who...

Peter Fleming: News from Tartary

The British adventurer’s 1936 account of his journey across the Tibetan Plateau and Xinjiang shows its age but remains a classic of travel writing.

A Spark Extinguished

At the height of the Great Famine in 1960, a group of students exiled to the countryside launched a magazine that dared to tell the...

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...

China Books Review