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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...

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.
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Sep 16, 6:30 p.m., NYC

Book Talk: Dan Wang on Engineers vs. Lawyers

Register now to hear Dan Wang discuss his new book "Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future," in which he sets forth a new paradigm to understand the engineering state of China as opposed to the lawyerly society of the United States, in conversation with Julian Gewirtz, a former senior official in the Biden administration.