Yan Geling: Crossing the Red Line
The acclaimed novelist and screenwriter built an audience in China for her powerful historical narratives. Then, somewhere, she crossed a line. What is it like...
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Translated Chinese Literature: Short Fiction
Short stories are all the rage in Chinese, but get short shrift in the West. We picked five recent translated collections, from riveting horror tales...
For All the Trees in China
For over a century, Chinese rulers have launched tree-planting campaigns, to benefit the environment and build the nation. But did their rousing rhetoric actually lead...
Ann Bridge: Peking Picnic
A 1930s novel of manners with evocative descriptions of Old Beijing offers surprisingly timeless observations about what it means to be an expat in China.
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...
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...