The veteran China watcher discusses his memoirs, the challenges of reforming Chinese law, meeting Zhou Enlai in the Cultural Revolution, and the CIA's Yale recruitment...
A Scotsman’s memoir of tutoring Puyi, China’s “last emperor,” is more than just court gossip — it’s a tantalizing portrait of China’s imperial trappings.
The former Chinese Communist Party leader’s ousting and death led to the Tiananmen protests, but his life reveals a deeper push and pull between reformist...
Zhou Enlai, Mao Zedong’s second-in-command, has been lionized as a moderating force who held back Mao’s excesses. But does he deserve that reputation, when he...
Join us to hear award-winning NPR correspondent Emily Feng talk about her new book "Let Only Red Flowers Bloom," a collection of narratives of state oppression and grassroots push-back in China — and the challenges she faced while reporting it, culminating in her own expulsion — in conversation with China Books Review editor Alec Ash.