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Summer China Reads

Five new China books for your summer reading list, from an intergenerational family memoir to a children's picture book of the Cultural Revolution.

What to Read in 2024

A few China titles we're excited to read in the year ahead — and deeper pickings to draw from in our comprehensive book listings project.

Best China Books of 2023

Our round-up of recommended titles (and one anti-recommendation) from the past year, selected by our editors and various guests.

What China’s Reading

Our round-up of untranslated Chinese books from the Sinophone world, from “everyday feminism” to working-class struggles, and a globetrotting frog.
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Wed Nov 20 6:30pm

Book Talk: Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn

Join us at Asia Society in New York for a conversation with Pulitzer Prize winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn about their time at the New York Times Beijing bureau in the late 1980s, as chronicled in Kristof's recent memoir "Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life."