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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...

In-Between City

Hong Kong has been caught between empires — and narratives — for almost two centuries. The diversity of its early migrants made the city what...
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Sep 11 (NYC) / Sep 22 (DC) / 5:30pm

Book club: "Women, Seated" by Zhang Yueran, tr. Jeremy Tiang

Join us in New York or D.C. to discuss this translated Chinese novel, a crime thriller about a nanny who kidnaps the child of a top official, that examines power and prestige in contemporary China, and the pressures that build along the fault lines of hidden pasts.