New Photography Books on China
Five recent photography collections, from a frontline view of wartime China to a bucolic portrait of a Hong Kong village, show how images can speak...
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.
Books on the Chinese-American Experience
To celebrate AAPI month, we partnered with Asia Society to round up five books that capture different facets of what it means to be Chinese-American.
What China’s Reading: Short Stories
Chinese literature has a long-standing, often fantastical tradition of the short story form. Five modern collections, from both the mainland and Taiwan, show that legacy...
Translated Chinese Literature: Trauma Fiction
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,...
What China’s Reading: How Past Reflects Present
Chinese literature has a long tradition of using history to discuss contemporary affairs. Our columnist picks five recent titles that do just that, from Shang...
Translated Chinese Literature: Winter Warmers
Our columnist picks another five recently translated titles — from Hong Kong tea house poetry to a self-help seal — and reviews the state of...
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.
New Chinese Literature in Translation
Our pick of five recent fiction books translated from Chinese into English, from donkeys that see ghosts to a dystopian vision of Hong Kong.
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.