Five new books deal with efforts to transform China: from the conquests of the Warring States to nationalist internet fantasies, all the way to campaigns against superstition.

Misogyny and patriarchy are a later misreading of The Analects, argues the author of a new translation of the Confucian classic.

Tales of trickery were popular in the late Ming dynasty. The translators of a new collection explain how they still resonate today.

Conspiracy theories and alarmism about Cold War redux are the best selling China books on Amazon.com. We read them so you don’t have to.

The writer and China watcher talks us through her microhistory of Mao’s last decade in power, and its relevance to Trump’s MAGA movement.