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Jung Chang: A Grande Dame of China Writing

The author of “Wild Swans” and its new sequel made her name by introducing China to readers through personal history — but her later biographies...

Yan Geling: Crossing the Red Line

The acclaimed novelist and screenwriter built an audience in China for her powerful historical narratives. Then, somewhere, she crossed a line. What is it like...

Liao Yiwu: The Storyteller

Since the 1990s, Liao Yiwu has been gathering oral histories of Chinese experience, from the everyday to the extraordinary. Then in 2011, harangued by the...

Where are the Tiananmen Protest Leaders Today?

35 years after Tiananmen, the most-wanted student and worker demonstrators now live in America, Hong Kong and Taiwan. A journalist who covered the protests caught...

Yiyun Li: ‘You’re Always Chinese’

The Chinese-born writer of fiction and memoir left in 1996 and has moved on to other settings in her work. But can a writer ever...

Murong Xuecun: ‘I’ve Been Liberated From a Cage’

Formerly one of the last dissident writers left in China, Murong Xuecun is now living in exile. How does a novelist get to the point...

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April 14, 6:30-8pm; Asia Society NYC

Korean Messiah to China’s 21st Century Helmsman

Join us to hear Wall Street Journal's China Bureau Chief Jonathan Cheng examine the tense strategic landscape in Northeast Asia — from Donald Trump's China strategy to prospects for renewed U.S.–DPRK diplomacy — on occasion of the launch of his book “Korean Messiah,” in conversation with Julian Gewirtz.

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