Is Xi Jinping a Marxist?
“Xi Jinping Thought” — articulated in texts by China’s leader and dissected in two new books — has the power to reshape China for decades...
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Move Fast and Break Things
Deng Xiaoping’s Southern Tour of 1992 has been heralded as the unofficial act that kick-started China’s economic miracle. But other voices were also calling for...
Ep. 13: Peter Hessler on ‘Other Rivers’
The bestselling author first taught in China in the late 1990s. In 2019, he went back. We caught up with him to ask what had...
Jane Perlez’s China Bookshelf
The veteran journalist walks us through five titles from her shelf, from past China correspondents to new novels — and an anti-imperialist board game from...
How a Chinese Student Turned Marxist
Intellectual young Chinese — once the socialist vanguard, now struggling to get by in a capitalist economy — are turning left once more. But when...
What China’s Reading: Travelers’ Dispatches
Five recent travel books published in China explore the world beyond, from Peru to Japan. We consider how Chinese travelogues show unique perspectives.
Philip Kuhn: Sorcery in Qing China
A supernatural crisis pits an anxious autocrat against his own functionaries, when a hunt for soul-stealing sorcerers turns into a political witch-hunt among 18th-century China’s...
Ep. 12: China’s Evolving Art Scene
Contemporary art from China took off in the 1990s, and became a hot commodity in the 2000s. The China Books podcast asks an expert how...
Where the River Reaches Home
Three recent books narrate family histories that flow over time and space. But when identities evolve across borders, language holds the memory that carries us...
New Photography Books on China
Five recent photography collections, from a frontline view of wartime China to a bucolic portrait of a Hong Kong village, show how images can speak...
Ep. 11: Beijing in Short Fiction
China’s capital is so difficult to capture that sometimes only fiction can suffice. The editor of a new short story collection explains how a literary...
Contemporary Chinese Art Photography
A collection of three decades worth of Chinese art photography shows a country in social and cultural foment, questioning the status quo and pushing aesthetic...