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The Thrilling Truth

A new thriller set in 1930s Shanghai includes just enough historical detail to be believable. But is history at risk of being overtaken by fiction?

Brave Attempt

A new account tells the story of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, and their failures, through four individual lives. But we need more unmediated voices...

All We Have to Fear

The Western world has held an outsized fear of Chinese power for centuries. But why? A new book argues that alarmism began in the late...

One for the History Books

How Endymion Wilkinson’s encyclopedia of Chinese history grew from 70,000 words in 1973 to 1.75 million words for its 50th anniversary edition.

Washing History

A new novel about the Chinese Civil War feels true to the author’s experience of it, but also amplifies the Party’s preferred version of the...

A Contested Century

In China, the 19th century is presented as an era of national humiliation. Two new books and an exhibition attempt to humanize it. But who...
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Wed Feb 19, 6:30pm

Book Talk: Jerome A. Cohen

Join us at Asia Society in New York for a book talk by Jerome A. Cohen, one of America’s foremost voices on China since the 1960s, and founder of the study of Chinese law in America. Cohen will tell us stories from his new memoir "Eastward, Westward," in conversation with Katherine Wilhelm, executive director of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute, and Orville Schell, director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society.