The autopsy of an American automaker’s failed dream of making and selling jeeps in China reveals much about the delusional thinking of joint ventures in...
Tianxia, Beijing’s favorite theory of global power, is held up by Chinese scholars as an alternative to West-centrism. The latest work of its loudest cheerleader...
In 1937, a U.S. military officer set off with Mao Zedong’s troops to raid Japanese-occupied territory in the north of China. The Communist guerillas, he...
A 1930s novel of manners with evocative descriptions of Old Beijing offers surprisingly timeless observations about what it means to be an expat in China.
In 1935, the Chinese author Lin Yutang offered Westerners an insider’s guide to China's society. It endures today despite his own cultural contradictions.
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...
Join us on July 1 in New York (or June 25 in D.C.) to discuss "Soft Burial" by Fang Fang (translated by Michael Berry), a controversial Chinese novel that follows the aftermath of the bloody land reform campaign of the late 1940s and early 1950s. Spots limited, register now to secure your seat.
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