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The Runaways
Young Chinese have been moving away from big cities into rust-belt towns with cheap housing and less pressure. A new book asks what they’re running...
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Yi-Ling Liu on the Changing Chinese Web
The author and journalist takes us behind, above and beyond China's Great Firewall for her book talk on "The Wall Dancers" in a China Books...
A Day in the Life of an Internet Censor
China’s social media boom let its people speak out — but its censorship network silenced them. One of those censors reveals what happens behind the...
Islamic China with Rian Thum
Islam has been part of China’s religious and cultural fabric for over a millennium, yet often it is seen as a foreign element. The author...
How China’s Independent Bookstores Survive
Even as restrictions tighten in Beijing, independent bookstores in Chengdu have flourished — showing how offline community and public debate can thrive. But it’s hard.
Zhang Feng on China’s New Media
The social media blogger explains how censorship works in the era of WeChat, and talks us through a changing media landscape, in our new column...
King Lear And China’s Big Leader Kultur
Shakespeare has much to teach us about the hubristic fragility of despotic leaders, from the tyrants of the mid-20th century to those of today. But...
Resolute Reading for 2026
Resolving to read more in 2026? We have you covered with five recommendations, from an essay collection of Tibet to a colloquial history of China’s...
Nan Z. Da and Stephen Greenblatt on Shakespeare and Mao
Two literary scholars explain what Shakespeare can tell us about China under Mao, and the nature of tyranny, in a China Books Review event at...
Chinese Horror with Xueting C. Ni
Horror writing has an unsavory reputation in China, but comes with a long history and is full of biting social commentary. The translator of a...
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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