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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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Dec 16, 6:30-8pm Asia Society NYC

Shakespeare, Tyranny and China

What do King Lear, Mao Zedong and Donald Trump have in common? How tyrants exercise power was a question of pressing concern for William Shakespeare, and is no less so in our current age. Join us on December 16 at Asia Society in New York to hear literary scholar Nan Z. Da in conversation with Shakespeare expert Stephen Greenblatt, moderated by Orville Schell.