logo for print
Showing 49 - 60 of 229

Empire of Engineers

China has been a nation of engineers, from imperial to communist rule. America’s lawyerly society could learn something from that — but civil and social...
Browse the archive

May 27, 5:30-7pm; Asia Society NYC

Tahir Hamut Izgil: Waiting To Be Arrested at Night

Join our book club in May to discuss Uyghur poet-in-exile Tahir Hamut Izgil’s memoir, a harrowing account of one family’s escape from the persecution of the Uyghur people in Xinjiang, translated by Joshua L. Freeman and interspersed with Tahir’s own poems.
RSVP