The Curse of the “Good Premier”
Zhou Enlai, Mao Zedong’s second-in-command, has been lionized as a moderating force who held back Mao’s excesses. But does he deserve that reputation, when he...
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Graham Peck: Two Kinds of Time
An American writer’s memoir of World War II China remains a timely diagnosis of the pathologies of U.S. foreign policy in the wake of the...
Huawei Goes to Iraq
How the Chinese telecom giant built a global business by chasing contracts in the Middle East — and attracted U.S. regulation in the process.
What China Read in 2024
Five books published in China last year, from fiction to memoir, reveal a nation still reeling from the pandemic, and finding a new literary voice...
Announcing the Baifang Schell Book Prize
A new annual award to celebrate outstanding books on or from China and the Sinophone world, with shortlists and winners to follow in both nonfiction...
Ep. 16: Oriana Skylar Mastro on China’s Challenge to the U.S.
An expert on China’s military and security policy looks ahead in 2025 to uncertain U.S.-China relations under Trump, and the risk of a war over...
Best China Books of 2024
Party luminaries. TV chefs. Poetry. Scandal. Our annual round-up of notable titles on or from China, split across nonfiction and translated literature, nominated by a...
China Fiction for the Holidays
Five recent titles bring mystery and magic to the season, from novels of split identity to a children’s book about escaping over-protective parents.
Socialism with Socratic Characteristics
In attempting to justify Communist Party rule, Chinese academics have turned to an unlikely intellectual ally — classical Greek philosophy.
Ian Johnson on China Correspondence, from 1984 to Now
The Pulitzer-winning journalist tells the story of his first trip to China in 1984, and how it changed his views on foreign reporting.
Liao Yiwu: The Storyteller
Since the 1990s, Liao Yiwu has been gathering oral histories of Chinese experience, from the everyday to the extraordinary. Then in 2011, harangued by the...
Ep. 15: Paul French on Wallis Simpson’s China Year
In 1924, an American socialite — who would later cause a scandal by marrying Britain's King — traveled the length of China. Her experience was...