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Best China Books of 2025

Identity issues. Migrant stories. Company profiles. Lost daughters. Daddy issues. Our annual round-up of notable books on or from China, nonfiction and literature, nominated by...

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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May 27, 5:30-7pm; Asia Society NYC

Tahir Hamut Izgil: Waiting To Be Arrested at Night

Join our book club in May to discuss Uyghur poet-in-exile Tahir Hamut Izgil’s memoir, a harrowing account of one family’s escape from the persecution of the Uyghur people in Xinjiang, translated by Joshua L. Freeman and interspersed with Tahir’s own poems.
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