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...
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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...
Mao to Now
Communist China, once all but impenetrable, opened up only to tighten politically again. Has Xi circled back to the Mao era? And what can we...
Will We Hear the Real Stories of Chinese Female Workers Again?
A women’s rights activist, one of the “Feminist Five” detained by authorities in 2015, discusses a banned Chinese book about the lives of female factory...
Radical Changes
A Chinese novelist moves to New York. Uprooted in a new country, how can she make sense of her past? And why are they called...
Orville Schell’s China Bookshelf
The veteran sinophile tells us about five books that shaped his relationship with China since the 1950s — and why ladders are an invaluable but...
How to Deal with the Chinese Revolution
In a 1966 essay, the American historian and father of Chinese Studies reflects on centuries-old cultural and political differences in the (then) early days of...
New China Nonfiction from 2023
In the first of our monthly book round-ups, we run through five recently published nonfiction titles to make sure are on your shelf.