The left-wing journalist’s 1937 account of meeting Mao influenced a generation who saw China through rose-tinted glasses as late as the 1970s — until the...
Since 1970, a Chinese-American photojournalist has been capturing images of street life in New York’s Chinatown. Here are twelve of them, from protest to pandemic.
Chinese writers have long used fiction to process trauma, both historical and personal. In these five newly translated titles, the trend continues in modern settings,...
China's surveillance capabilities are often presented as feats of futuristic technology. But its true advantage lies in human networks of informers and state workers.
20 years after “Shangri-La” was coined in the Western imagination, a Russian adventurer published a memoir from the valley of Lijiang, southwest China, that is...
Netizens on the Chinese internet have been using buzzwords and memes for decades, to express obliquely what they cannot directly. From the “river crab” to...
Join us at Asia Society in New York for a book talk by Jerome A. Cohen, one of America’s foremost voices on China since the 1960s, and founder of the study of Chinese law in America. Cohen will tell us stories from his new memoir "Eastward, Westward," in conversation with Katherine Wilhelm, executive director of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute, and Orville Schell, director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society.