History is supposedly written by the victors. Sima Qian, author of China's original historical classic, showed it could also be written by the condemned.
After millennia of imperial history, China today has distanced itself from the concept of empire. But the new forms of Chinese imperium are more subtle...
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...
Join our November book club, in either New York (Asia Society) or Washington, D.C. (JF Books), for an evening of spirited discussion and community centered on Yu Hua's latest novel "City of Fiction," an epic tale of love and violence in 20th century China.
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