China Books Review hosts regular in-person events (every two months or so) at Asia Society’s headquarters in New York, where our office is based.

For these book talks and panels, we invite authors and experts to share their insights on China and the Sinophone world, discussing their recent publications while the book is hot off the press.

All talks are recorded, and videos are viewable in our archive of past events. Authors take audience questions and are available to sign books, which are on sale at the event.

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Explore upcoming talks here or click the links below. Use the code CBR15 for a $15 discount as a China Books Review reader!

Upcoming Events:

• Wed 28 Oct 2026: Emily Feng on Uyghurs in Syria
• Fri 30 Oct 2026: Xiao Hai on China’s Migrant Literature
• Fri 20 Nov 2026: Jung Chang: My Life After China

Past Events:

• Thu 15 Oct 2026: China’s Psychological Scars
• Tue 30 Jun 2026: Hong Kong’s Past, Present and Future
• Tue 2 Jun 2026: Frank Dikötter on How Communism Won China
• Tue 14 Apr 2026: Jonathan Cheng: Kim Il Sung to Xi Jinping
• Tue 5 Feb 2026: Yi-Ling Liu on China’s Internet Censorship
• Tue 16 Dec 2025: Shakespeare, Tyranny and China
• Wed 22 Oct 2025: Patrick McGee on Apple in China
• Tue 16 Sep 2025: Dan Wang on Engineers vs. Lawyers
• Wed 11 Jun 2025: Joseph Torigian on Xi Jinping’s Father
• Thu 22 May 2025: Barbara Demick: Daughters of the Bamboo Grove
• Tue 25 Mar 2025: Emily Feng on Identity in Xi Jinping’s China
• Wed 19 Feb 2025: Jerome Cohen: Eastward, Westward
• Tue 21 Jan 2025: Eva Dou: House of Huawei
• Wed 20 Nov 2024: Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
• Fri 18 Oct 2024: Kevin Rudd: On Xi Jinping
• Mon 01 Jul 2024: Matt Pottinger: The Boiling Moat
• Thu 27 Jun 2024: Edward Wong: At the Edge of Empire
• Mon 11 Mar 2024: Alec Ash on Escape to “Dalifornia”
• Mon 13 Nov 2023: Yasheng Huang: The Rise and Fall of the EAST
• Thu 12 Oct 2023: China Books Review Launch