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The Life of Saint Xi

China’s official Party press has published a series of oral histories about Xi Jinping’s career, from sent-down youth in Shaanxi to Party Secretary of Shanghai....

The Martyrdom of Liu Xiaobo

China’s dissident writer was an exemplar of iconoclastic intellectual spirit, pursuing a more humane society despite state repression. A new biography draws the arc of...
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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.